[DeTomaso] Pantera sold on eBay

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When that happens to me, I offer to buy it at the last price under my max bid - i.e. your $2K lower price.

After all, if someone hadn't bid it past my max bid, that's what would have won the auction.

They normally get pissed off and refuse, though.  Better to know they're dishonest before you fork over $$.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry - Ohio Time Corp <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>
>Sent: Feb 18, 2009 9:21 AM
>To: thefuture98070 at yahoo.com, kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com, detomaso at realbig.com, MikeLDrew at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   Pantera sold on eBay
>
>When I bought my GT5 shell I put my eBay bid in at the last second and was
>high bidder with 2K still to go on my max bid. I was out bid on the last 1/2
>second. Within 1 minute of the sale end I get a second chance offer at my
>max bid. I knew what happened. I knew they did it to find and get my max
>bid. I should have walked away. It was the max I was willing to pay so I
>took it.
>
>When the trucking company delivered it, I knew I should have walked away
>even more.
>
>Larry (felt used) - Cleveland
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
>Behalf Of chris terp
>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:28 PM
>To: kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com; detomaso at realbig.com; MikeLDrew at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   Pantera sold on eBay
>
>Actually, I've been a victim of sellers outbidding their own product so they
>don't lose.  For instance, this person might have wanted $40k for the car,
>advertised it as 'no reserve', and then bid $35k for their own car so they
>would not lose.
> 
>Or they could have had a friend bid up the price well knowing they would not
>be held accountable for the purchase.
> 
>It's hard for EBay to keep track of these types of sellers.  Seller history
>is a good way to check.  Also, you can ask EBay if there was potentially
>fraudulant activity there and they will check it out.
> 
>Chris Terp
>#6571
> 
>
>
>--- On Tue, 2/17/09, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
>
>From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   Pantera sold on eBay
>To: kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com, detomaso at realbig.com
>Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:04 PM
>
>In a message dated 2/17/09 11 50 22, kmaguire at landrovermiramar.com writes:
>
>
>> I don't have any experience with eBay, but the bidding pattern is
>> certainly suspect. The winning bidder bid against himself from $30K to
>> the "winning" bid of $35K in the space of 50 minutes.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe we will see this car come up for auction again...
>> 
>You gotta read the fine print.   The bidding history does not show automatic
>
>bids.   So, somebody put in a bid with a 'max bid' of 30K, let's
>say.   Then 
>somebody else manually bids $20K.   E-bay accepts his bid and raises it to 
>$21K.   E-bay accepts that and raises it again, and so on until the manual
>bidder 
>either quits, or he makes a bid higher than the automatic bidder's max bid.
>  
>The manual bidder is then in the lead, and E-bay sends an e-mail to the 
>automatic bidder, telling him that he's been outbid, and offering him the
>chance 
>raise his stated max bid.
>
>And so on...
>
>Mike
>
>
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