posted on April 8, 2002 04:43:23 PM new
I was finally able to check My eBay and found I had a starting bid on a low-end item. The bidder just signed up Sunday and has bid on 50 items. OHHH, my stomach is knotting up....pass the Pepto.
posted on April 8, 2002 11:22:41 PM new
You know, something I might do in your shoes as the auction end gets closer, if the newbie is still bidding on lots of things and is high bidder on your item: I'd e-mail him and tell him frankly that I always check on newbie's current activity to try to forestall any problems, that I'd noticed how many items he's bidding on, and I'm sure he understands that every auction he is high bidder on, he will be responsible for. I'd offer to give him free advice if he needed it.
The worst that could happen is that he'd get mad and stop bidding on your stuff or withdraw his high bid or such. . . . but then you'd have learned something about him, right?
posted on April 9, 2002 12:23:41 AM new
So this newbie bid on a low end item. Don't wory about it. Just relax and do the same thing you would do with anyone else.
If the person deadbeats, you are only out a listing fee.
We have 0 feedback bidders bidding all of the time. They usually follow through with the transaction with no problems.
roadsmith
If I was a newbie and a seller emailed me and told me they were checking up on my bidding habbits and condescendingly told me I was responsible for everything I bid on, I would be insulted, no make that pi$$ed off. You would be alienating a perfectly good customer because you are being paranoid...
posted on April 9, 2002 04:13:56 AM new
Even though I have been stiffed by 2 newbies in the past few months, I'm going to ride this out. In the meantime, I going to hope:
A: they're not bidding for points
B: They got their income tax return
C: They are honest
D: Hope for another bidder.
posted on April 9, 2002 08:33:57 AM new
Relax and don't drink that yuckey pink stuff just yet. When I first got on Ebay a number of years ago I bid on a bunch of ten cent seed packets just to build up a little positive feedback. Probably what your bidder is doing if it's mostly low cost stuff they are bidding on. It doesn't cost them much and it makes them look a little better when they decide to sell.
* http://www.romahawk.com
posted on April 9, 2002 08:47:35 AM new
don't do anything. As long as this person is not bidding on 50 similar items, they probably get the concept of high-bidder.
posted on April 9, 2002 08:47:46 AM new
I agree with Romahawk-could be bidding on lots of "little" auctions to build up FB. If he gets left FB at the rate I get left FB, then when all is said and done, he may end up with a rating of 10!
Then again, if he's like I was when I started, I was like a kid in a candy store! "OOH, Ooh, I'll take one of those and two of those and I just haaaave to have that one..." when the dust settled I had racked up enough "stuff", I just had to have, that I had to start selling myself!
posted on April 9, 2002 09:09:04 AM new
Romahawk,
He IS bidding on low cost ($5.00) items over and over: anything Lion King and and little girl's clothing. You could very well be right.
posted on April 9, 2002 09:13:21 AM new
I love newbies. They are always the ones that bid up items to ridiculous amounts. I have had very few problems with newbies paying.
Hang on to my hat and hope for the best. It could have a happy ending!
