Threatened with solicitor action as buyer did not win auction

discobaby

mippy wrote: »

I had an auction for a pair of used shoes ending today. I went off for my lunch, the auction ended, the buyer paid. Simple.

Then I get an e-mail from the next-highest bidder. She told me she bid £50 for the shoes, and eBay acknowledged her bid with an e-mail. I checked the bid history and she bid once at £33, the winner bid £34. She told me that she called eBay and they told her if she had her e-mail then the bid went through, and the only way it would not have let her win is if I cancelled the bid - which I had not done.

I replied and told her that the bidding history didn't reflect this, I had cancelled no bids, and the winner had already paid for the shoes so I wasn't sure what she expected me to do at this point.

She replied and told me:
"I have spoken to William of the ebay
helpline at 14.16 this afternoon and he advised me that the confirmation
would not have been sent if the bid had nto been registered, meaning I
definitely placed that bid. He assures me that the only way I would not
have won in this instance was if someone bid more than £51.01 or if a
seller cancelled the bid, but I assume I would have had email notification
to say so if that had been the case. Obviously I'm pretty distressed at the
situation, I am still prepared to pay my maximum bid amount, I have sent
the emails and item details to ebay who are looking into it for me."

then

"hi there, i am not sure what else to do so have contacted my solicitor with
all my information, so that he can instruct further. he seems to feel that
unless the bid has been cancelled, the email correspondence sent from ebay
constituted enough to be held as a contract, but obviously he shall be
writing a report up to yourself formally"

I'm a private seller and I don't need the stress of someone contacting me via a solicitor. I want to sort this out, and it seems deeply unfair that the person who won the auction would lose out. I'm also slightly flabbergasted that someone would go to this trouble for a pair of used shoes

Any advice?

Geezz all over a pair of shoes!! Are they Jimmy Choo's?? otherwise whats this woman fussing about lol :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

basilseal

Bongedone wrote: »

Somebody is posting as Dino-Princess-Char on another thread in this sub forum. I think both Dino's are wind ups. Did the original account get closed yesterday. The one in the other thread only has a post count of 3.

Is the low post count because many of her posts on this thread may have been removed? surely there can only one person can register the same screen name on the forum?

basilseal

Yep, it looks as if all her posts have been removed from this thread. there are replies to her posts around page 5 and 6 of the thread but i can't see any of the actual posts.

NeilJung

Bongedone wrote: »

Somebody is posting as Dino-Princess-Char on another thread in this sub forum. I think both Dino's are wind ups. Did the original account get closed yesterday. The one in the other thread only has a post count of 3.

Link please.

TurkishDelight

NeilJung wrote: »

Link please.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.html?searchid=60193291

tbw

basilseal wrote: »

the feedback she's left gives a good picture also, here's the edited highlights:

http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=dino-princess-char&Dirn=Left+by&ref=home

Bearing in mind that she appears to have had trouble just about every time she has bought via EBay, I am wondering why she still carries on doing it ? Bad experiences normally put people off anything - especially if it keeps on happening.

NeilJung

TurkishDelight wrote: »

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.html?searchid=60193291

"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

Oh well, thanks anyway. I'll just keep reading down the page.

EDIT: Unfortunately not as entertaining as one might have hoped, but the posts are in these two threads:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1733379&highlight=

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1733295&highlight=

Hintza

Just a tip for all those who are getting far too many pages in a thread like this. Yo can get 40 replies on one page, think the default is 20.

Just go to User CP > Edit Options and change the number of replies per page.

cyril82

VanyaHargreeves wrote: »

For once, Cyril, I agree with you, and I think your advice is extremely sensible!

wow. that's weird.

Ha Ha, Perhaps you are coming around to my way of thinking......

but i won't bet my house on it just yet..

elfieb

After reading this thread, Im into mind whether it is a wind up, or that DPC is infact a loony (feel free to threaten me with a solicitor if you so wish).
Blocked her from bidding on any of my stuff anyway....from reading the feedback she seems a persistant trouble maker. People like her that make ebay far more complicated than it actually should be!!!