5 Apr
2010
5 Apr
'10
3:13 p.m.
I am assuming that you were hoping for a higher selling price...
First of all, you should have set a reserve price on the auction or a minimum bid of what
you wanted to "at least" get from the auction. The buyer (whatever his rating)
may have just signed up. I think I would have included the native language write up rather
than just in English.
Second, sometimes just a picture of a box is just what a buyer gets. I would have taken
pictures of the box insides or even included a stock photo of what the disk pack is that
is in the box.
just a couple of thoughts.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de>
Sent: Apr 5, 2010 5:54 PM
To: General Discussion at null, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>, null at null
Subject: eBay disaster
Hi folks,
could someone please explain me THIS?
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190385486840
I don't sell on eBay very often. And from time to time I see people paying
astronomical sums for
more or less junk. But this time it was me offering stuff - and what did I get? I have no
clue who
would sell me a used RK05 disk pack in unknown condition for that price. But this was a
new in a box
one....!
What did I do wrong?
Was it the winner of the auction who has 0 eBay points? There was absolutely no trace of
fraud on my
side. I did neither bid with another account nor did I even ask someone to bid on my
auctions to
drive up the price. That's what I got from it. I hope that the lucky 0 points high
bidder on my pack
is someone who really exists...
Regards,
Philipp
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http://www.hachti.de
5 Apr
5 Apr
3:26 p.m.
I am assuming that you were hoping for a higher
selling price...
Yes, of course!
First of all, you should have set a reserve price on
the auction or a minimum bid of what you
wanted to "at least" get from the auction.
Puh.. A minimum is possible.
But a reserve? I feel uncomfortable when I see this "reserve not met"
thing in other auctions. So I don't really like that idea.
The buyer (whatever his rating) may have just signed
up.
Yes. That's the reason why I refused to limit the group of people who are
allowed to bid. If this
should turn out to be a scam, I'll think different when it comes to further offers.
I think I would have included the native language
write up rather than just in English.
Oh, why? Because of my bad English? The chance
to sell this kind of stuff to someone in Germany is
quite a bit lower than selling it to elsewhere (i.e. US) in the world. So I decided to
write in
English only.
Second, sometimes just a picture of a box is just what
a buyer gets. I would have taken pictures
of the box insides or even included a stock photo of what the disk pack is that is in the
box.
If you looked at the pictures I have put onto the auction you should have seen
that I actually have
photographed a pack lying on the box. Another one, of course. I did not want to open the
box -
opening the box would have spoiled the whole thing.
-----Original Message-----
> From: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> Sent: Apr 5, 2010 5:54 PM To:
General
> Discussion at null, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>,
null at null Subject: eBay
> disaster
>
> Hi folks,
>
> could someone please explain me THIS?
> http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190385486840
>
> I don't sell on eBay very often. And from time to time I see people paying
astronomical sums
> for more or less junk. But this time it was me offering stuff - and what did I get? I
have no
> clue who would sell me a used RK05 disk pack in unknown condition for that price. But
this was
> a new in a box one....!
>
> What did I do wrong? Was it the winner of the auction who has 0 eBay points? There
was
> absolutely no trace of fraud on my side. I did neither bid with another account nor
did I even
> ask someone to bid on my auctions to drive up the price. That's what I got from
it. I hope that
> the lucky 0 points high bidder on my pack is someone who really exists...
>
> Regards,
>
> Philipp
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -- http://www.hachti.de
--
http://www.hachti.de
4:30 p.m.
Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
If you looked at the pictures I have put onto the auction you should
have seen that I actually have photographed a pack lying on the box.
Another one, of course. I did not want to open the box - opening the box
would have spoiled the whole thing.
The flip side of that is how do I know as a buyer, that I'm not just
buying a box....I've known that to happen on ebay too.
Though to be honest I can't understand the facination with having the
box unopened, brand new yes I can understand that, but unopened, besides
it's pretty easy to fake that also by re-sealing the box.....
Cheers.
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.
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