Yet another EBAY AUCTION ENDED EARLY w/ NO RESERVE!

[Rickdogg]

Another auction ended with no reserve!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=720091519

 

Ebay needs to do something about this. Sellers are beginning to abuse this way too much " High bidder takes it home," MY . The only error I see in the listing is the ridiculous S/H Cost

[Joanna]

I have no idea if anyone is interested in this, but what the heck.

 

John named Kitty Pryde after a friend of his from school. He just thought it was a really great name. Years later, he was on a trip home to Canada, and ran into Kitty at the local movie theatre. She said that over the years, several people had come up to her asking if that was her. She said she'd told them she didn't know for sure, but did remember going to school with John Byrne, and thought it probably was. Finally, after years of being told she was a member of the X-Men, John was able to confirm that it she was.

 

-- Joanna

[greggy]

Yeah, I remembered someone claiming to be her listing a page given to her by John on eBay a few years back. I don't think that it sold because the beginning price was something outrageous like $10,000. Damn Canuck should have listed it at no reserve and it would have sold quite well. Sentimental reasons maybe?

[greggy]

Mmmm, what was the supposed error in the shipping cost as detailed in the cancellaton reason? Too low? Yep, another black eye for eBay!

[jens25e]

I dont understand what the problem is. Can somebody clarify it for me?

[greggy]

The problem is the seller ended the auction with less than 5 minutes to the end citing an error in the shipping amount. First of the all, the shipping amount is way too high for one CGC book. If it was lower, there is really no need to cancel the auction for that reason. If they are claiming that it is higher, then they are real crooks when it comes to charging the shipping and handling rate. The point that Rickdogg is saying is that the seller was probably unsatisfied with the current bid and not confident that some last minute sniper(s) would bid it up to an acceptable level so they cancelled the auction instead. Therefore, the selller avoids any additional initial listing fees associated with setting a reserve, as the listing fee is based on the reserve and not the opening bid amount!

[jens25e]

I see, thanks for the explanation.

[comicinvestor-migration]

Yo Ricky, are you keeping a list of these bozos who practice premature auction-ulation? If so, post some here so we can keep track and stay away from the knuckleheads.

 

I have no time to play their moronic games and I doubt anyone else does either.

[greggy]

Hey CI, look at this person's description and comments to Canadian bidders...and he's from Canada! What an insufficiently_thoughtful_person!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=723455960

[Rickdogg]

Off the top of my head; BOZOS that end auctions early are:

 

-reynoldjay

-Jauito@ford.com

-procrustean

-dhooker

-2ltbill

 

 

There's a few others but I can't remember. I'll make sure to right them down next time

[comicinvestor-migration]

What was that guy who ended his ASM 100 and some other issues early? I remember he was a big dealer, and some forum members may have been bidders?

[greggy]

Something like 2Bill....

[Rickdogg]

Probably,

 

-2ltbill

 

I wrote that down but wasn't 100% sure

[Guest]

That's the guy - 2ltbill.

 

Love that Canadian seller, greggy... guess he didn't feel it'd be customer friendly to simply state S+H is the same to Canada as the U.S.

[read_em-migration]

Great idea for a thread. Here's one I was watching for 7 days that was ended about 3 hours before it was supposed to be:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=720952949

[Rickdogg]

Yup, these sellers need to be shown as the asses they are This tactic has been used as of late to avoid reserve price fees

[comicinvestor-migration]

Well, somebody add king_nine to the Bozo List.

[Rickdogg]

king_nine

 

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=king_nine&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1&include=0&page=1&rows=25

 

So it's clickable

[Guest]

Does reynoldjay do this as well? I hadn't been aware until I saw him on the list above.

[Rickdogg]

He sure does. I was planning on sniping some x-men books of his and he ended it Sure enough, it was up the following week I emailed him and told him that he just lost a customer.