2nd Chance Offers

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by Edwolf1963

Question - when you get a second chance offer literally within one minute of the auction ending when you were the under bidder, wouldn’t a red flag go up? The seller looks new/new user ID on eBay w/only 10 feedbacks to date (100%) The winning bidder .. I can’t see anything shady that stands out (no bid retractions and less than 10% bidding activity w/that seller).

Perhaps he has multiples of the same item (it’s not a rare card) and doesn’t want to list them all individually, reaching to under bidders if he’s good with that price? That’s not noted though and others tend it to list quantities available. It just seemed a bit awkward to me so soon after the auction ended.

That would absolutely be a red flag for me. If it's not a rare item I'd run away quickly and find another one.

[Snapolit1]

Yep. To me that's evidence I was just played and the guy who won the item wasn't supposed to. Wink, wink.

[gregr2]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Yep. To me that's evidence I was just played and the guy who won the item wasn't supposed to. Wink, wink.

Agree, happened so fast that’s the only thing that makes sense.


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[Edwolf1963]

Thanks, yeah – that was my first thought (shenanigan’s), but it wasn’t clearly obvious to me that the winning bid/bidder was suspect given low bidding activity with this seller and no bid retractions. I know that doesn’t tell everything though.