Gotta love December Ebay Bidders....and the smell of napalm in the morning...

[D. Bergin]

Arrghhh! I knew this would be a problem auction. Guy had the high bid as it ended for about 18 hours. Literally seconds after the auction ended I receive this message from him.

I see I am high bidder on this item...I placed a maximum bid but somehow the computer did not register a period. I buy a lot of papers and I did not want to bid $1191 on this item. I do not know what to do, ebay said to contact you

The guy put his bid in on December 4th, yet doesn't realize what his bid was until split seconds after the auction ends? The guy had his question to me queued up immediately as the auction ended. I smell a bit of sabotage, for whatever reason. Maybe he doesn't like the guy who was bidding against him, maybe he was working with the 2nd high bidder to back the bid up to the next lowest bidder under them, maybe he doesn't like ME......I don't know, maybe I'm being paranoid.

Anyways, this is the item:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1961-Basebal...category=73430


Went way higher then I expected, which is why I expected it to be a big f'ing headache.

In about 18 years on Ebay, this is perhaps my tersest response I've ever given to somebody else. My reply in return:

Why did you wait until right after the auction was over to tell me this? You were the high bidder at that price all day. You've essentially just sabotaged my auction. You could have corrected this as soon as you put your bid in on December 4th. I can't even offer it to the 2nd high bidder, because he will think you were a shill for my auction.

You will have to request a cancellation through Ebay.

Can't do anything about it, just venting really. Never had something like this happen to me in all the time I've been on Ebay, even though I've heard of it happening to others all the time.