Curious, have you ever contacted a buyer who outbid you in an auction and asked to purchase the item directly from them? If so, how did it turn out? How much more did you have to offer to them to get them to sell to you?
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In fact, that one of the reasons ebay changed the ability for outsiders to see bidder identities. They don't want it done.Curious, have you ever contacted a buyer who outbid you in an auction and asked to purchase the item directly from them? If so, how did it turn out? How much more did you have to offer to them to get them to sell to you?
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No. I have contacted the seller to tell them I'm still interested if the first buyer changes her mind.
Yes, sellers can still do SCO.Ha, most of the "buyers" who outbid me are obvious shills and the item gets relisted with a much higher opening bid. I've just about given up on there being honest auctions, I mostly BIN. Can't sellers still offer it to a lower bidder if the first backs out?
Ha, most of the "buyers" who outbid me are obvious shills and the item gets relisted with a much higher opening bid. I've just about given up on there being honest auctions, I mostly BIN. Can't sellers still offer it to a lower bidder if the first backs out?
That's my problem - I'm so used to doing BIN, that I literally forgot how to bid correctly. For some reason I just didn't keep "automatic bidding" in mind, and lost an auction last week that has me kicking myself. Sometimes I wish everyone on eBay would offer BIN, or Best Offer options - the whole bidding thing is such a pain.
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While there's certainly shill bidding going on in a lot of auction listings, not all multiple bids by 0-feedback newbies indicate shilling.