6 Mar
2012
6 Mar
'12
2:07 p.m.
> - One seller cancelled my bid five minutes from
the end of the auction
> and closed it as "item no longer available." Then sent me an extremely
> rude email accusing me of "wasting her time", "trying to get a
valuable
> item for nothing" and "ripping her off".
> The item in question? An old Amiga software disk, sans any form of
> packaging... just the disk. Not even a particularly rare one either.
> For bonus points, they keep changing their damned user ID.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, David Riley wrote:
And possibly the saddest part of this is that (unless
there was a reserve
placed), you could have bid a million dollars/pounds and she wouldn't
have known, because no one else was bidding. That's just how eBay works
(or doesn't, depending on your perspective).
The Seller sets the minimum bid amount. If they are seriously offended by
that amount, might one suggest suicide?