15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
11:34 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
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 beg to differ. I've bought several items on second-chance offers,
with no problems. Granted they were sellers with whom I had history, or
I corresponded with them, much as you suggested, before taking the offer.
OTOH, I've also turned down many more second-chances, because they
were obviously scams, or more often IME, the auction itself was a scam
to generate second-chance bids.
If you have many of a moderately rare item, listing them
simultaneously drives the price into the ground. Unless it's *really*
rare, sequential listings can do the same for the last few. If you list
only one, then make SC offers to the top few losers, then wait awhile
before listing again, you can both sell them all reasonably quickly and
keep the value up.
There's a seller who lists one ATX PSU adapter for the Amiga 4000
about every 3-4 months. The bidding always gets stupid, and I always
get a second-chance offer for as many as I want, at my max bid. As much
as I could use one, it pissis me off too much to go there.
Doc