eBay question - what would you do?
 

I sold some guy a $85 card last night. This morning he asked me to cancel his bid, as the 4 bids below him were all from same guy with 0 feedback. Runner up bidder had probably moved the line a total of $10. Was convinced someone had run him up. I have no idea who the runner up bidder was, and I've seen more than a little of that crap with modern cards. I wanted to tell him to pound sand, but don't need grief with anyone and just cancelled his winning bid, re-listed it, and moved on. Right call? I mean no one held a gun to this guy's head and made him bid anything.

I would vote for the sand option,

I think you made the right move. As a seller, I've learned that someone who is a pain to deal with before you even send anything is likely to be a pain later on as well.

cancel and move on.
 

$85 not worth the energy.

Great advise..

Agreed

Definitely not worth fighting with them about it. Irrational buyers will just leave you negative feedback if they don't get their way. I pretty much always just let people cancel bids or sales for whatever reason they want. Just relist it. It's not that big of a deal, in my opinion.

I would just cancel it, but also probably add him to my block list. If he did it once, I would bet he'd do it again.

LOL, almost anybody whose won a competitive auction got “run up” by somebody.

Wonder what his comfort level for other bidders are. 1 feedback? 2 feedback?

That said, not much you can do about it.

Yeah, and I've had situations where a sale fell through and the next sale is higher anyway.

This...I had a guy renege on a $1,000 offer for a Mantle card I had. I accepted his offer and he told me to pound sand. I ended up selling the card to a buyer in Australia for $1,400. He was pleased as punch.

I had a buyer who won a card last week. He wanted to cancel transaction 10 minutes after he won it. The reason: it would take too long to arrive.

Pissed me off but all I could do was cancel the transaction and block him.

It's all part of doing business on eBay. Just cancel and move on. But make sure that you block them..

WWJD?

He'd probably get a little pissed off, figure it wasn't worth the effort and do what you did. I guess this is someone to throw on the your list of blocked bidders. You could out the butthead and then everyone on this board could block him. It would be kind of funny if that actually made an impact on the butthead's ebay bidding experience.

+1

Definitely add him to your blocked bidder list.

I can see it now. JC flipping over tables at the National. :eek:

If you held the line, I would be worried he would damage the card and then return it as "not as described." I'm sure people do it anyway if they get buyer's remorse after it ships.

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Very Wise decision you made. Those type of buyers are nothing but TROUBLE!

This thread gets even more interesting if the buyers you talk about and/or block on ebay are net54 members. :D

Out the MOFO here so we can all block him. I've gotten a few 'why am I blocked, we've never done business' PMs from people I've blocked based on feedback from other sellers. Always a fun reply: "because you screwed over a friend of mine in another deal."

When I was a seller I learned through successful sales that some 0 or low number bidders are simply new to eBay. I'd be nervous on expensive items, but learned that the 0 or 2 bidders were just as reliable (or unreliable) as high number bidders.

I just bought a $10 card from 2021 A&G from a seller with 1 feedback. He contacted me asking for positive feedback when the card showed up. While I was encouraged a seller actually contacted me, I thought to myself, either he had to create a new account, or this dude just decided to jump into the surge. Hopefully it's the latter. Current state of the hobby has made me a cynic.

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Cancel it and move on. Better times ahead!

About a year ago I had a card listed at auction on there and one guy was the leading bidder for a few days. Then someone else came along, zero feedback, and kept bidding in $5 increments over the course of about 20 minutes. Had about 6 bids. Later I went and looked and saw that he had placed another bid, was the leading bidder, and immediately retracted that bid.

Bidding went higher from others and this zero feedback guy starts bidding again, even going higher than the bid he retracted. Not surprisingly, the guy who had been the lead bidder for a few days also retracted his bid. I can't blame the guy based on what this 0 feedback bidder was doing and he probably thought I was shilling my own auction.

I ended up going in and cancelling all of the bids from the 0 feedback bidder and blocking him. To cap it all off, someone else bid with two minutes left and won. Then asked to cancel 10 minutes after the auction ended.

Not wanting to deal with any further nonsense, I cancelled it and relisted. Ended up selling for about $30 more.

shill bidding?
 

Here's a dark thought for you. The guy with 0 feedback might be a shill bidder for some other Ebay seller. He might have the twisted logic that throwing in a few bids on other sellers' auctions might hide that he is mainly a shill bidder for one particular seller. Not you, of course, but the buyer seeing that bidding pattern might make him nervous about getting shilled and overpaying. Panic over $10 is comical, though.

This

Yes, move on.

If I knew that was going down I might actually get to a national for the first time.