posted on May 18, 2004 05:09:13 PM new
I have a bidder with zero feedback bidding on some of my auctions which end tonight. I checked their bidding history and they have over 10 pages worth of winning bids. Some of the older ones ending back on May 4th. I suspect a bidder gone wild. Does anyone have a way of contacting ebay and finding out if there have been any NPBA’s filed against this bidder?
posted on May 18, 2004 05:55:00 PM new
You can do what I do. I contact some of the sellers this person won items from. I explain my concerns and ask them if they've heard from the bidder. You'd be surprised how accomodating they are especially if they are having the same problem.
posted on May 18, 2004 07:31:16 PM new
Thanks much for your input. I’ve already blocked them and canceled their bids. Unfortunately my first auction of the evening already had closed before I could take action. I did contact other sellers and asked for their input. Amazingly none of them had received payment yet and one of them put it bluntly, DEADBEAT. I pulled the contact info and they had a New York City address, but a Cherry Hill, NJ phone number (how did ebay miss that). My original deadbeat from a few weeks ago had a Cherry Hill address and phone number, plus they both subscribed to comcast.com, their bidding MO was also the same. What really burns my cookies is the fact that with dozens of auctions ending back on May 4th nobody bothered to neg this loser. Makes you wonder how many NPBA’s were entered in, if any. Oh well, life is short so I’m moving on to bigger and better.
posted on May 18, 2004 08:09:45 PM new
Why don't you call the N.J. number and see who answers? I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to contain my curiosity until I spoke to the person that number belongs to. You might find out something that safeharbor needs to know about as well as the rest of the sellers. It may be another week or so before the first FVF requests start to bury him.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on May 18, 2004 11:19:04 PM new
Maybe they use Vonage. For $29.95 a month you get unlimited usage and you pick your phone number. You can have any area code you want from any state regardless of where you live.
Edited to add that I wasn't supporting or pushing Vonage. I checked into it because I thought it was kind of neat to be able to have a area code outside your own. But, they use the cable modem and I bet it isn't much better than the silly internet phonelines they used to have.
It was just an observation that it is now possible to have a area code in one state and reside in another.
[ edited by lindajean on May 18, 2004 11:20 PM ]
It irritates me that sellers don't neg deadbeats! I do. I recently had two in one week. Both are blocked and both got negs. Well, one did. I'll be giving a big fat neg to the other today.
