E Bay Steal

Browsing e bay this morning, not wanting anything,just browsing, spotted a nice coat with only a few minute left, no bids.


Item condition:
New without tags
Ended:
01 Feb, 2014 09:25:37 GMT
Winning bid:
£0.99
[ 1 bid ]
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Item location:
Sunderland, United Kingdom
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I did see a buy it now on it, but popped in 2 pounds to be cheeky, I won it for 99p, now the seller is crying foul, she wants me to pay either the buy it now price or cancel. She says she paid 120 pounds for it.
My head says make her sell, my heart says no, I was in a similar situation with an expensive cashmere coat of my husbands, didn`t think when I listed it, but withdrew it before anyone could bid with hours to go.

 

Tricky one. If I was the seller, I would just bite the bullet and post it, because that would be my part of the bargain. It was up to her to think it through, after all. She could have paid a few pennies to list it at an acceptable price to her but chose to take the risk of putting it to auction. The principle of an auction is that you accept the auction outcome.

How much was the BIN price? If you are feeling very kind you could meet her halfway on the price. But then, she'll never learn and it will encourage her to browbeat more of her customers and flout the principles of ebay. However, you can't make her send it, so if you really want the coat you'll probably have to give way. She would have been better off lying and saying she'd just spilt ink on it by accident, or something!

The thing about ebay, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. If you'd ended up paying much more than she was hoping for, she wouldn't refund you half of that, would she? So I think you are free to do as your purse dictates and depending on how badly you'd like the coat.

Also, you cannot usually expect to recoup even a quarter of the tagged price on ebay clothing, even with a new item. The exceptions are if the item is very fashionable or is a fantastic, well-known label, then you might be lucky. So, the coat is not worth £120 even if that's what she paid. An eight of that is more realistic.

Let us know what happens!

 

I looked at her feedback, she has a negative that suggested a P.O. mix up, and someone purchased an item for which she refunded the payment no explanation, her buy it now I thought was 15 she says 18 and it`s not coming up on the page,

 

I think Ebay would back you totally. If she wanted to wriggle out of the sale, that's why it would have been better (for her) if the coat had had an unexpected accident. Not that I would advocate lying but it would have saved this mess!

You retain the option of giving poor feedback whatever happens.

I assumed it was an auction with BIN option. As soon as someone bids the BIN option disappears. I've noticed a lot of duplicate listings, i.e. two listings for the same item but it's obviously a second hand one-off item. Do you think these are genuine mistakes, or do people list twice and sell to the higher bidder?

 

I have always assumed they had 2 or more, but thats me i tend not to look for the bad till it hits me.

 

Okay told her I placed my bid in good faith and it`s her expensive error, we await the reply.

 

What would happern if it was the other way around, you selling her buying

 

She has replied "Hello Pam, that's ok then .Regards, Linda" now I feel awful, but smug . Lets just hope she doesn`t damage the coat before sending.

 

good luck Pam,
nice coat BTW,
Jenny

 

It`s Alpaca , mohair and wool mix, should be nice.