Ebay Seller of signed items: listing, relisting

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Hermesaholic

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I know many of us scour ebay for items and I have noticed an incredible number of items that are listed with no reserve sell and then get relisted, sometimes multiple times. I believe they have someone bidding and if it doesnt get high enough so they just say the person changed their mind and void the sale and keep relisitiung. This seller below has done this repeatedly. Has anyone experienced this?



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Mario-Buccellati-18k-Rose-Gold-Stunning-Diamond-Bangle-/361262592091
 
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Hermesaholic said:
I know many of us scour ebay for items and I have noticed an incredible number of items that are listed with no reserve sell and then get relisted, sometimes multiple times. I believe they have someone bidding and if it doesnt get high enough so they just say the person changed their mind and void the sale and keep relisitiung. This seller below has done this repeatedly. Has anyone experienced this?



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Mario-Buccellati-18k-Rose-Gold-Stunning-Diamond-Bangle-/361262592091
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I suspect you're instincts are correct. That's a red flag in auctions with a low starting price and private bidding. Personally, I avoid those types of listings and sellers because it's too easy to hide a variety of misdeeds in private listings.

Here's an example. This was sold in a private auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Osc...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

And relisted with FP/BO:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Osc...d-Emerald-Gem-Diamond-Earrings-/131474434750?

Another "sold" in auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dav...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Relisted at FP:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dav...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

"Sold:"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dav...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Relsited and resold:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dav...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The irony is that many of the relisted items end up selling for less than the previous listings. It makes you wonder how it would have gone if the bidding was done honestly in the first place.

Another thing I noticed is that the original listings had private bidding and the relisted items (that sold for less than the first time around) had public bidding.
 
#4
I've grown tired of ebay- I was going to list something today and received an email from ebay stating my listing was removed due to my name being similar to another user on ebay and our accounts could be linked- called ebay and they said in my city (over 1 million people) there's another user with the same last name shipping from this city too (they want me to provide my social insurance number to prove my ID...ya okay ebay). i'm of irish heritage and I can tell you my last name is basically the irish version of "Smith" so I can guarantee there's another user in my city with the same last name...what a joke.

ebay is becoming full of scammers who seem to get away with it and those that aren't scammers are being treated unfairly by ebay. I took my listing down and said hell with it! i'll sell it privately then!
 
#5
Candice0985 said:
I've grown tired of ebay- I was going to list something today and received an email from ebay stating my listing was removed due to my name being similar to another user on ebay and our accounts could be linked- called ebay and they said in my city (over 1 million people) there's another user with the same last name shipping from this city too (they want me to provide my social insurance number to prove my ID...ya okay ebay). i'm of irish heritage and I can tell you my last name is basically the irish version of "Smith" so I can guarantee there's another user in my city with the same last name...what a joke.
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Are you serious? My husband has been dealing with mixups like that since jr. high school. He had a classmate with the same name and same birth date since 7th grade. They went all through school together from junior high through high school and dealt with each other's parents getting calls from the principal when one of them skipped school, forged a hall pass or whatever. And the wrong kid would be punished with no apologies from school officials.

Fast forward to adulthood when they both got jobs with the same phone company (yeah, the big one!) and for the next 30 years, got each others pay checks, blue cross statements, retirement statements, etc. They don't still live in the same city but they continue to haunt each other!

(Records are identified by name and date of birth and it never occurred to these idjits that there might be people with the same (common) name and same DOB.)

Sorry for the hijack but this is ridiculous. Is there another type of documentation ebay would accept for you to prove your identity?
 
#7
I was going to bid on a DY ring that was ending last night, did some research on completed listings and saw the same ring/exact photos. I looked at the bids and saw one bidder bid up the price at the end and supposedly won the item. I then looked at the one I was going to bid on (the relist,) and saw the same bidder doing it again at the end. The price went way higher than it should have, but even if it was a good price, no way am I buying from a seller that does this.

A different seller than the one above. While I was watching this one, I remembered this thread.
 
#8
Hermesaholic said:
I know many of us scour ebay for items and I have noticed an incredible number of items that are listed with no reserve sell and then get relisted, sometimes multiple times. I believe they have someone bidding and if it doesnt get high enough so they just say the person changed their mind and void the sale and keep relisitiung. This seller below has done this repeatedly. Has anyone experienced this?



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Mario-Buccellati-18k-Rose-Gold-Stunning-Diamond-Bangle-/361262592091
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YES!!!!
I have seen this with VCA diamond pieces. One seller has listed, sold then re listed the same item five times. I contacted the seller and asked questions...I got a very flim flam reason... Another seller- same thing. His explanation was that bidders refuse to pay. Another item- recently sold and is again re listed. The seller says that the buyer thought the item was going to be larger, even though the description clearly stated the size of the item. Now the item is back up but as a BIN, priced much higher than what it auctioned for. I think these sellers are playing games in order to get the highest price.
 
#9
texasgirliegirl said:
YES!!!!
I have seen this with VCA diamond pieces. One seller has listed, sold then re listed the same item five times. I contacted the seller and asked questions...I got a very flim flam reason... Another seller- same thing. His explanation was that bidders refuse to pay. Another item- recently sold and is again re listed. The seller says that the buyer thought the item was going to be larger, even though the description clearly stated the size of the item. Now the item is back up but as a BIN, priced much higher than what it auctioned for. I think these sellers are playing games in order to get the highest price.
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Yes it happens quite often. I have watching lots of items that have been relisted continuously and sellers always said because of non-paying bidders.
 
#10
Another one that bothers me is when they suddenly end an auction because of
1) an "error" in the description or
2) the item is "no longer available"...
You then see the same item up for bid again with the same description.
There appears to be no way to report these sellers either.
 
#11
So the seller in my initial post link has been selling a Buccellati ring. It has sold and been relisted at least three times. I emailed them and asked them what was going in and I got this: it didn't fit so the buyer returned it. (Mind you, this ring is a larger size and is easily resized.)
 
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