Answers are provided interspersed with your statements. See below. ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: Re: AAAgghhhhhh
> Hi, Len, > > Legally, of course, you're right. The guy can withdraw the item any > time he pleases, even with 15 seconds left in the auction. No harm, no > foul. No one's out any $$, so no injury. Yes, it is legal. Ebay's rules for sellers states that "Item is no longer for sale" is a valid reason for closing the auction. > However: > > What would this seller say, I wonder, if the shoe was on the other > foot? What if I had the highest bid, and then said, "I change my mind. > No one's been injured here, just re-list the item and away you go." You > can bet I'd get a nasty feedback, and he'd likely try to get me banished > (so I could log on with a different user name, and start all over > again). You have the right to do that too. I don't think he would give it a second thought. He could go to the next highest bidder and offer it to him or he could use your withdrawal of bid as a reason to cancel the auction, whichever was more advantageous to him. He has a lot of transactions in his history, I don't think he'd get all that excited about it. He couldn't leave you nasty feedback for an incompleted transaction, unless you didn't notify him and ebay of your withdrawal and the auction closed with you as the winner, and you didn't pay up. > As has already been mentioned, if this guy has over 900 feedbacks, he > knows the score. He could have put a reserve on the auction if he > wanted to avoid a loss. Reserves tend to inhibit bidding in many cases. If you know the rules, you don't have to put a reserve on an item, you just have to follow your auction carefully as it comes to closing time. > Let's face it, losses sometimes happen in this game. Just as sometimes > sellers get way more than an item's worth when you get two or more idiot > bidders in a bidding frenzy; you should be prepared to take to bad with > the good. When you are the seller, there is no reason to take the bad. If you do, it's your loss. He decided not to take the loss. > This guy may be playing within the rules - technically. But, he's > certainly not playing by the "spirit of the rules". In my opinion, he's > a slimy jerk for doing what he did. Well, everywhere else in life, playing by the rules seems to be quite enough. There is no chapter in ebay's rules entitled "The spirit of the rules", or "The real rules you should use instead of the official rules". I don't think he's going to lose as much sleep over your opinion of him as you are going to lose over it. Len --- - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
