Part three: Trouble with eBay, and stuff.
Sep. 1st, 2005 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2So I returned on Tuesday evening, ready to catch up with the flist and my eBay stuff, and then I read this message from one of the people who have bidded on eBay items that I have:
It is very obvious you as a seller drove up the price of the coins. There are ways of seeing this that you obviously don't know about. Since i live in [my hometown] Michigan your Neighbor i will be want to pick these coins up in person. By the way i am 6.2 255pds and i don't like getting ripped off! We will be talking soon.
At first I laughed and laughed because I thought it was a joke. Then I realized that he was serious. I sent him a note saying that I have never done things like that, and that when the odd bidding occurred on the items, I was actually driving through MI because I wasn't even home for the last week, and had scheduled the auctions to begin.
I called the police, and sent a report to eBay. Of course, just after I did this, he sent a grudging email back saying that he was talking to the people who had done the bid inflation trick, and could I please reduce the cost on shipping because we were so close.
Argh!
It really made me angry, and freaked me out, and made me not want to ship anything out or even look at eBay. Of course, that was a stupid reaction, and I'm about to go put together a bunch of things that need to be shipped. But still.
I'm still fuming.
It is very obvious you as a seller drove up the price of the coins. There are ways of seeing this that you obviously don't know about. Since i live in [my hometown] Michigan your Neighbor i will be want to pick these coins up in person. By the way i am 6.2 255pds and i don't like getting ripped off! We will be talking soon.
At first I laughed and laughed because I thought it was a joke. Then I realized that he was serious. I sent him a note saying that I have never done things like that, and that when the odd bidding occurred on the items, I was actually driving through MI because I wasn't even home for the last week, and had scheduled the auctions to begin.
I called the police, and sent a report to eBay. Of course, just after I did this, he sent a grudging email back saying that he was talking to the people who had done the bid inflation trick, and could I please reduce the cost on shipping because we were so close.
Argh!
It really made me angry, and freaked me out, and made me not want to ship anything out or even look at eBay. Of course, that was a stupid reaction, and I'm about to go put together a bunch of things that need to be shipped. But still.
I'm still fuming.
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Date: 2005-09-01 06:40 pm (UTC)Depending upon shipping methods, the prices aren't different due to proximity. WTF.
Don't let this guy bully you. If he continues the online harrassment, and you need any assistance in proving its him doing it, let me know, because Steve can trace that sort of thing back for you quite handily.
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Date: 2005-09-01 06:50 pm (UTC)And it all boils down to this:
Most people on eBay (experienced bidders) wait until the last fifteen minutes to bid.
What is happening with him, is he's bidding early, and then people watch what he's bidding, and screw with him because they don't like him (gee, I wonder why). So he pays more for his auctions. *rolls eyes*
I miss you, girl!
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Date: 2005-09-01 07:08 pm (UTC)I miss you too!!! We need to make plans - the next couple of weeks are heavily focused on getting my house ready to sell but after that I should start having some more free time. :D