Leonides020 wrote:My my, you're a suspicious bunch. Heh. I'm not going to "explain myself" to anybody except to say everything I did was legal, so an email to eBay would be pretty pointless. I will say that the reason I retracted the bid on the 77 Lot was because the seller altered the description, and I wanted to check out what he had changed and talk to him.
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Hey all...thought it would be interesting, so I contacted the seller of Leo' lot. The seller and I have conversed at length before...she is a very decent nice person. I wanted to see how honest Leo really is, so I asked her a few questions. The English is a little broken, but very sincere and kind: What do you all think?
Dear rolfebus,
Congrats on the auction...I heard you settled with the high bidder at $1400. I am curious...what was revised on the auction page and had he/she (the high bidder) contacted you to ask what had changed? I ask this because he/she had placed a bid on the auction, retracted it, then sniped it at the last moment. He/she states it was retracted because of the listing revision, but it was revised on June 1 and he had bid on June4, retracted on June 5, the sniped on June 8. Looks to me like the first bid was a probe to find what my high/max bid was and then later bid again. Please reply. Best regards to you and yours.
Thank you,
morgansurname
DEAR MORGANSURNAME
Thanks for the interest I know you had it from the beginning and remember it well I wanted to send you a email saying
great 1313,13 with the question why not 1414,14 what is also a nice number and I was hoping than we would agree......
but it is terrible after closer seems everyone regrets..... got the winner and two others short after I got more or less already
a agreement with the highest bidder.......Yes I must admid I was also angry that he withdrawn his fist bid and I demaned
hem to read the instruction of e bay if you do you have to re enter the right amount what he did not at that time.....
I was then at that time still not worried as I read on my list 18 bidders are following the auction so I was thing for sure I sell well waiting a good surprise (2500 remember incl 2nd
merp by the why more or less the same price i paid for them )
............... that why I was at first very disappointed ...........
You understand.......... I still had your more or less offer and bid in my pocket and as I wrote you I understand your situation very well and can agree with it........
I do not know of any revised entry I made only I think half houre after entry I think I saw some English mistakes which
i corrected but nothing serious i believe.....oje sorry yes now I remenber I took the maps 2008 of the list as they will not fit in the boxes and to mail seperate is crazy....sorry....
I got nice contact with a few bidders one I feel most sorry for now as he wrote me a long e mail explaining how to play te games as I wrote I do not know how etc ,..... still looks to me to complecated finding a rolemaster or and stories ...??????
but his service provider brookdown just half houre befor and for sure he wanted to bid more paying also less mailing for belgium
I have of course still the the second set and I feel but that is always after you know best your offer i better accepted in the first place
as I see lot of intereste still belive it is cheap but the buyers are students and young people with i feel some cash flow problems
I collected them as an addition to my tolkien collection but felt that if others can play with it better than standig in my bookselfs
Still I have not received the payment I hope he will do quickly otherwise .......what ?
I just started selling a little on ebay looks to me I have to do the ebay learning study to get the system better........but I will never become as good as you are for sure you look very professional me amateur.........
Can you tell me how and what you would have done reading you e mail below professialy I mean ?? I m confused......
Now still feeling sad that we could not find the middle road together............
thanks very much for you follow up and I hope I explain the hole lot send me your phone number I call you and we talk it over if you want......
well "good" godfather wishing you well and healtheness.with thanks of yours....
a dutch ebay friend
Jan boom
P.S.
I see on the paypal meno below never pay with Western Union ??
Do you know it was the old bidpay was it not ?
I still can use it i think I did not do for a long time as paypal is easy for me ??
but I wonder ...... You know anything about it ????
Jan,
More questions and answers:
1. Did the winner ever contact you after he withdrew the bid? In other words, did he withdraw the bid and then email you to ask you what had changed on your listing (what was revised)?
2. Give yourself credit...you did a fine job on the listing. It generated a lot of interest. You also evidently handled the email end of things well.
3. Regarding the email below....what the bidder did was wrong. He is being reported to Ebay by another seller. It appeared as though he put a bid in just to test the waters so to speak, and find my max bid. Then bought it at the last moment. I am not upset that I did not win, I am upset because he is a cheat.
4. I am unsure about the W.U. question. It has been around for a long time and is still in use. Bidpay is something different I believe. I am also unsure what exactly Paypal offers in line of insurance. You have to pay extra to get something extra. I think you have to pay upfront to get coverage from Paypal. It seems like a ploy by Ebay/Paypal to keep people from using their competitor's services.
All the best
THANKS
1. No , only as I already told you he would bid again and follow up and after I read his payment history principel good payment
but i was afraid only small amounts ?? never the less with my other options i waitend to see waht
2 thanks you again I try to be serois kand and whatever like to have a little contact with the sellers and the buyers
to see if i can help with anthing.......
3 yes maybe you righr cheat i mean......but I m NAIF and STUPID I never was thing of that and in fact I m
(I remember when i still was working i sacked someone because of bad behaufiers as i found out at ones
but never was thinking it would happend it was already going on for 2 yeras befor i felt something wrong......)
4 yes that is it compiteter i think so too.
WELL I A MEMBER OF MANY TOLKIEN SOCIETIES AND I HOPE WHEN I SPEAK MEMBERS AND THEY INTERESTED
I KNOW MANY OF THEM READ FOR SURE I WILL DIRECT THEM TO TOU MY FRIEND MERP-GODFAHTER
VIA EBAY OF YOUR EBAY SHOP........(no commission hahaha good)
GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPENESS
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
ANY PROBLEM WITH A DUTCH CUSTUMER TELL ME I SORT IT OUT FOR YOU......
JAN
Hmmmm....looks like Leo never mailed Jan to ask anything. In fact, Jan contacted him to find out what was up with the retraction....