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Stuck with Ebay bid on Vstrom


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For what it's worth, as a buyer, there's not a whole lot a seller can do to you. Can't leave negative feedback for a buyer, the best you can do is file a non-paying bidder report. If they hit the buyer with a non-payment, the seller gets his listing money and final value fee back, and the buyer gets a "non-payment" strike, which you can't see anyways. Basically a waste of everyone's time. EBay is heavily biased for the buyer...

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I ended up with a macbook by accident that way... I bid $600 intending to drive the price up and accidentally won it :p I went through with it, though, and it's still workin' well to this day, and if I sold it, it'd still fetch me the $600 back likely.

Just withdraw your bid and you'll be OK... someone will snipe it at the last second anyway.

I don't eBay, so I'm serious .... other than being a troll, why would you drive a price up on something that you have no intention to buy? Doesn't that kind of screw with the market forces that make eBay what it is?

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Retracting a bid on the final day used to be a big no no with ebay. I know the rules have changed since I began there over 10 years back, but I have had people retract at the last minute before, and when other bidders were offered to buy if they wanted, everytime, those bidders never even responded, so I had to go through re listing it. Its total bullsh!t for the seller when it happens, but guess its ok based on what I am reading here. I hardly ever deal on ebay any more just because of this type of stuff. Craigslist makes it way too easy.

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Dude that was a dick move. End of story. Quite frankly I wish you would have gotten stuck with it and they would have come after you. WTF is all that comes to mind.

I mean it's pretty simple, if you bid and win, you PAY. You don't be a little bitch and retract or cancel a bid. Even if it's an accident, that's just life, and how auctions work.

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Till 5900 the reserve is not met that means no sale no matter who bid how many times till then right? I bid 100 dollars up and I meet the reserve and I got stuck, panicked and retract the bid within hours. 6000 was the price they kept minimum, it's not as if I bidded and jacked it up, either ways i know what I did was bad, but not as bad as what some might think.

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Yep, I just checked my messages, the seller had responded to my mail earlier saying it was okay and to go ahead and retract the bid :)

All ended well, although it was a good deal, I didn't have the money

What's the old movie line? "Your internets writing checks you're wallet can't cash"? :lol:

Glad you got out of the deal but think that the Strom is a great bike. No crotch rocket, but it'll go where they won't.;)

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No offense... but that is a dick thing to do. I hate when people get in on a bid just to drive the price up on people that are genuinely trying to get a good deal on an item. I don't even understand why you would want to do that, I mean if you are curious about a reserve price just email the seller.

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Yep I know, just curious, like if a seller keeps a reserve he won't be selling it until it meets reserve right? Till then no matter how many times we bid it doesn't jack up the price.. ?

well, if it is bid well below the reserve price then they usually re-list it with a lower reserve.

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