What do you think of this now received item? Supposedly "brand new".

vertical_fool

Hi all.

I've bid and won these bumpers and may have bid too much however they are hard too get hold of and I was prepared to pay a premium to get them.

The bidding history looks suspicious to me although as an amateur ebayer I thought I better ask the people with more experience so:

What do you think of the bidding history?

If the other bidder (Larkin, I think) was the person with the second highest maximum then it may have no bearing on the final price unless he entered his maximum based on the price at the time.

Anyway I'd be interested in what you think, although I do want the bumper and the rear one I got for £20.

Thanks

Vertical

frivolous_fay

Linky ?

funkyfunkymonkey

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Linky ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=220093685372&rd=1&rd=1

funkyfunkymonkey

Looks fine to me, Bidder 1 started off at starting price £31?, Bidder 2 came along and had decided that their max was £101, Bidder 1 'nibbled' and gave up at £50, Bidder 3 had a single bid, then Bidder 1 'nibbled' some more. You came in at whatever your max was and pipped Bidder 2 at the post.

I think ...

FFM

rare_stuff

as FFM has said, it looks like normal bidding in action here. Having looked at the sellers closed listing only one other high value item sold recently and there was no suspicious activity on that auction either and it's more transparent as sale price was below £100 the other bidders ID's are visible.

Hintza

Regardless of what was bid before your bid was at the end with seconds to go no one had bid for just under an hour FFM is quite correct. Seems like a normal auction to me and i would have thought the retail price on this would be considerably more so you got a bargain.

Sounds a bit like a certain amount of buyers remorse. I couldn't care less about shill bidding to be honest (if decide to bid) I would do exactly what you did and whack in my highest bid at the end. If I was concerned I would never bid in the first place.

vertical_fool

I became a bit concerned with bidder 1 (I've forgotten their user name) really because they had no feedback and had only bid on this item in the last 30 days yet had been created in 2005. I thought this might have been an account created for bidding up the price (Is this shill bidding?).

Is there any way to see the bidding history for more than 30 days?

Thanks

Vertical

funkyfunkymonkey

I can see your concern, but bear in mind that Bidder 1 started off the process - I don't think shilling is likely to start until after the 1st bid.

FFM

vertical_fool

I had contacted the seller asking if I won the items then could I collect. I probably worded it to suggest I was definately interested because he mentioned having other items that I could look through, that he was uncertain of whether they were for a Daihatsu Hijet. So if somebody else was showing interest then he could have been pretty sure of somebody else bidding on the item.

Thanks FFM

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vertical_fool

I received these today. They were described as brand new however there is scrapes in the plastic all over the place. Now they may have never been fitted but stating them as being brand new is simply wrong. They have dates on the labels of either 2001 or 2002, so.

Where do I stand?

What would you do?

I based my price on them being new, if they were more accurately described I would have looked further into breakers yard options.

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Hintza

Do they not need rubbed down before painting anyway?

Does it matter when they were made?

Unless they are badly gouged or cracked I would say you got what you paid for and you said they were hard to find.

What price a new one?