I'm starting to notice a disturbing trend with some eBay sellers. I've seen a lot of people complain about people buying up exclusives and flipping them for outrageous prices. I've personally come to terms with this and, like many of you, have decided not to feed the beast. However, every now and then I've happened upon one where the bidding is low and I've won the item at a reasonable cost. But recently, I've had two sellers cancel my order after winning and paying. One tried to say I requested to cancelation, which I did not. The other didn't ship the item, and when I asked about it, he canceled the order. When I looked at his feedback, he had others who complained of the same thing. Has anyone else had this experience?
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Orders being canceled after winning auctions at a reasonable cost
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I’ve seen plenty of auctions end, only to have the same knife listed again, I’m guessing because the winning bid wasn‘t high enough for them. Just recently I saw a pretty rare CRK get listed for the 4th time! I can’t believe it’s for any other reason.
I think EvilBay make auctioneers pay a reserve to keep their lowest acceptable price . It says that, when you do an auction style posting. I've seen plenty of auctions say"Reserve not met". I think that they want to go low-ball, to start bidding war, but I thought the seller was bound to their starting price. I still look for unicorns on eBay. I always ask if an item is listed anywhere else....hint hint. I want eBay out of the knife selling game. They have sucked my blood for 6yrs(that's on me for believing they were the safest way to buy and sell) They posted that they would be managing payments instead of PayPal. I think they said that that would mean, no 3% for PP fees. So,10% and not 13%. They then started a 2.25% payment management fee! WTF?!
I won an auction 2 years ago for an Arno Bernard Wasp for $100. It was a great bargain. I paid and after 3 or 4 days of not hearing from the seller nor seeing any shipping information I tried contacting him again. He refused to sell the knife. Period. Of course, I won my complaint and was refunded my money. The seller was eventually removed from ebay.
I like community here on BF, I’ve been buying and selling on eBay for 6yrs. Some of the people there are strict flipper/profiteers, which is on all sites. Sometimes we take a modest profit for an item. But some on eBay are scum and don’t communicate and really push the envelope of scalpage( not a word).Most BFERS love knives and try to recoup their investment, but we are self policed and we get checked if we go off the profit rails.
Complain to ebay, name the sellers here, tell anyone who will listen. Tell them and ebay you are doing all of the previous. I think that is about all you can do besides not feeding the beast at all, but I'd love to hear other thoughts. It is time to take back this hobby from ebay, FB, insta, youboob, or whatever other dumb platform these losers are using to screw good folks. As much as we can, anyway.
Peter Hartwig
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I would certainly be upset and report the incident to Ebay. It likely won't help you, but maybe they will ban the person from other listings. I am not familiar with all aspects of the Ebay pay structure, but if the cancelling costs them money they likely will be interested. If they still make money, likely not. Ebay cares about Ebay 1st.
A no reserve auction is suppose to be just that, and the seller takes their chances on what they get. If that isn't acceptable they can put a reserve price or do a straight sale.
A no reserve auction is suppose to be just that, and the seller takes their chances on what they get. If that isn't acceptable they can put a reserve price or do a straight sale.
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Back when I was still a hobbyist, I tried to sell on eBay. I got a few sales. Like two, I think haha. But I then tried an auction, and I started the bid at $0.95. One guy bid. I forgot to check. I would have cancelled before the auction was ended, but the day came and I got the notification. So I spent more money shipping the knife than the guy paid for it. Never again.
bikerector
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Pretty sure that will get a seller kicked off from ebay if they refuse to send a sold knife, unless there was a reserve set (which is stupid to me, just set the min at the reserved price, weird feature).
