13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
9:34 p.m.
...
Never respond to a "second-chance"
solicitation. You know,
the "the winner of my auction didn't pay me or sent the item
back, so rather than re-list it, I'm offering it to you as
one of the other bidders for the winning bid"
ploy. Those are almost always scams.
I did buy one of those once & it worked fine. But I had a student last year
who told me that he had bid on a laptop and got a "second chance" offer and
was scammed for about $1K. I probably won't do that again, or at least I
will be very careful.
Gil