Sold £299 ebay item for £1.04. Shock!

Wig

I don't see why if you didn't want to put a reserve on it, then you could have your mates accounts or sister, parents account, or just a spare ebay account that you create for this purpose and put your own high bid (reserve bid) on the item.....

I believe they call this shill bidding, and Ebay has made it so much easier to do now that you cannot see who the other bidders are.

I also don't see why you don't just take a blackmark (red mark actually) on your ebay account (if he complains) and say the item has been stolen from your garage over the weekend or it was a mistake listing and you have taken advice and been told you can cancel the sale....simples

Yes it's wrong, but who cares? oooh dear you get a red mark and some low stars. You are obviously a total newbie at selling, otherwise you would have had a shill bid in the background. Why make a rod for your back?

Open a new account and furgetaboudit

soba

I sold an item of shop equipment on ebay for 99p:o. I'd checked on completed listing and plenty had been sold recently for much, much more. Anyway 99p is what I started it at (to entice bidders) and 99p is where it finished. The guy came to collect the item and gave me £25 as he knew it was worth at least that. He was pleased and so was I:)

chancesare_2

vicx wrote: »

but I don't regulate one particular board .

thank goodness you don't actually regulate any board :rotfl:

Badger_Lady

Regardless of the legals, I personally feel it's morally right to go through with the sale. I wouldn't judge the OP for cancelling, but I would go ahead.

I've won auctions for 99p before now and was delighted with my bargain. I'm simply passing that good karma on by allowing my buyer to collect on a 99p win.

vicx

chancesare wrote: »

thank goodness you don't actually regulate any board :rotfl:

Thank goodness for the 'ignore' option.

Just wish it also blocked you from reading through my posts.

Do you not get bored of stalking my posts?

s_b

ive probably sold 7 items in 5 years on ebay and always because i was offered a free listing
non of the items i was bothered about selling but were of no use to me at the time
i didnt uderstand all the side boxes as you list so never put a reserve on my item
it sold for 99 pence one bid and there were a few watchers
i let the guy buy it
it was easily worth £100
i dont care what some of you say i still believe in doing the right thing
im obviously in a small minority these days
im not interested in large business ideals either because the large corporate company i worked for many years ago would have let a product mis priced be sold at the mis price
no ethics anymore i find it sad

marleyboy

I have always honoured my sales on Ebay, no matter how much of a loss I have sold the item at. I guess thats why I have a good Ebay history with a 100% positive.

I am more than happy to buy items from sellers at the price I have won them for, regardless of how much of a loss it is to the seller, so it is only fair for me to cut my losses with any items I end up selling at a likewise loss.

Strapped

marleyboy wrote: »

I have always honoured my sales on Ebay, no matter how much of a loss I have sold the item at. I guess thats why I have a good Ebay history with a 100% positive.

I am more than happy to buy items from sellers at the price I have won them for, regardless of how much of a loss it is to the seller, so it is only fair for me to cut my losses with any items I end up selling at a likewise loss.

And the other side of the coin is being willing to cut a newbie seller some slack if they've made an obvious mistake.

marleyboy

Strapped wrote: »

And the other side of the coin is being willing to cut a newbie seller some slack if they've made an obvious mistake.

I cannot say I ever have, on the same token I have never been given slack for any selling mistake I have ever made. Much akin to a Tesco price glitch, I tend to honour a deal as the price stands, both as a buyer and a seller. .

Martin_Knott-Lewis

I'm back. Sorry so many of you are doubting my genuine story.

Here's the latest!

I made the buyer an offer to deliver, not for £25 as someone suggested but for just £20. It is a 60-mile round trip.

Got a reply that he doesn't like my terms and will be coming to collect.