Ever have someone contact you and offer to buy something that you bought on ebay? Happened to me with a CD I bought six months ago. Got an e-mail from someone willing to pay double what I paid for it “if you maybe don’t like it so much.”
Is it some kind of really obscure cd or something?
It’s called “Classic Aid 1989.” I bought it cause Julian Lloyd Webber is on it. He does a completely different version of brother Andrew’s work “Variations.” Damn good too!
I didn’t know it existed, and I’ve yet to see another copy for sale.
I sort of did that myself. I was interested in a single baseball card. Someone was selling a lot that included it and the price went up beyond what I was willing to pay to get that one card. I contacted the high bidder and asked him if he’d be willing to sell that one card to me, and I offered him about half of what he paid for all eleven cards in the lot for that one.
He said he would, but I never heard from him after that.
In retrospect, I should have outbid him for the lot, taken the one I wanted, and offered him the other ten for a low-ball figure that would make up what I didn’t want to spend for the one card I wanted.
My friends bought a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade machine from eBay. They played it for about a month, then put it up to resell it. The person they outbid for the machine when they bought it emailed them, asking why they were selling it already blah blah blah. He didn’t bid on it again, though.
Brief PSA: transactions occuring not directly through eBay aren’t covered by any of their mediation processes.
Whats really odd to me is they only keep searchable auction lists up for about 90 days. After
that you have to know the item number so they must have noted who bid on it.
I got the stupidest ever question from a winning bidder:
“Do I have to send the payment before you send the stuff?”
I replied, “Yes. You have to send the money first.”
Never heard from them again. By the time I complained to Ebay, they were suddenly “not a registered user”!
I sold a diecast car on eBay for $35. 2 months later I got an email from someone offering me $100 for the car. I sold him the car out of my collection figuring I could buy the same car from my local dealer and make a few bucks. Before I bought a replacement, Dale Earnhardt was killed and the value of his diecast went through the roof. I still haven’t replaced that car in my collection. That car is selling for around $150 today.
I’ve send an e-mail like that as well. There was a Roland TD-5 trap set for sale on e-bay. I didn’t win the bid so I send the seller an e-mail telling him I was REALLY interested in it and if somehting happens and the winner doesn’t come though, I’d buy it at the same price + $50 (It was a pretty good deal).
Lucky for me the winning bidder came though because a month later a music store was closing these out and with all the extras they included I got a much better deal on a new set.
Sounds suspicious. I suspect foul play.