From: Larry Tighe (larryradio@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 07:40:07 PST
everette et. al.,
I never bid till the last 7 seconds. Can you or anyone explain to me the
logic of bidding before the close? I bid the max I'm going to pay, not to
"win" against someone else.
What confounds me is why people bid in advance and run up the price!! I see
newbies with low feedback bidding because they're personally involved in
winning the fight. But, I have yet to understand why anyone would advertise
their interest in an item by bidding in advance.
Tons of my mil vehicle stuff have come from eBay...great deals...especially
if the sell listed it improperly and I found it.
Curious minds want to know, why bid before the closing moments???
Lar
www.antiquetelephone.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: [MV] new - to me - ebay scam
>I bid on at item offered on ebay - did not have real need for the item but
> it was priced cheap so I bid, was outbid and I made one more bid and
> stopped. Day or so after sales closed I got an email from seller - at
> least
> said was seller - Stating that the purchaser had backed out and if I was
> still interested I could have the item for my last bid plus one dollar, I
> replied "sure how do I complete the sale?".
>
> I then got a reply that said -- I will call you and you give me your
> credit
> card, or debit card information and I will ship merchandise.....
>
> All sorts of bells and whistles went off in my head, I am going to give
> this
> information over the phone to some individual I never heard of!!!!!!!!!!
> not
> very likely
>
> Everette
>
>
>
>
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