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ccouch (Chad)
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I have been slowly selling off a huge vintage collection that I purchased a few months ago. I listed this card this week, and the auction ended today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=261095621819#ht_291wt_1141. I listed the card for $12 and would have been happy to have gotten that for it. There were a few bids that were a few bucks higher than that, so I had undervalued the card a little bit. Anyway, you can see that there was a late snipe bid for $92 that merely served to bump the auction winner up to a bid of $93. I knew as soon as the auction ended that I wouldn't be getting paid for this one!
My belief is that two "win at all cost" bids went up against each other. However, the buyer e-mailed me immediately and claimed that the $93 bid has to be erroneous because his max bid was $27.73. He requested a cancellation of the transaction.
Frankly, I don't believe his story but I knew there was no use fighting the battle because he was was never going to pay me $93 for the card. So I agreed to the cancellation.
The question is this -- has anybody ever had this happen to them as a BUYER, where eBay has placed a much higher bid than the absolute maximum you would have bid? It certainly has never happened to me...
My belief is that two "win at all cost" bids went up against each other. However, the buyer e-mailed me immediately and claimed that the $93 bid has to be erroneous because his max bid was $27.73. He requested a cancellation of the transaction.
Frankly, I don't believe his story but I knew there was no use fighting the battle because he was was never going to pay me $93 for the card. So I agreed to the cancellation.
The question is this -- has anybody ever had this happen to them as a BUYER, where eBay has placed a much higher bid than the absolute maximum you would have bid? It certainly has never happened to me...
