Cheap Cobra on Ebay - 12 minutes left!

[Modena]

ebay is an anonymous auction. Yes bid fraud happens, and not just on vehicles, but bid fraud happens in in-person auctions too, sadly it's part of having an auction it seems.

If you lose out at an in-person auction, how do you know that the bidder was genuine? Most times you won't.

To bad you missed out on this one, you better move on and start looking for the next potential.

If you are contacted by the seller because the high bidder doesn't complete the auction, then you should certainly negotiate assertively based off your last and highest bid. I wouldn't be mentioning contracts, reserves, or T's & C's, unless you want to scare them off and lose your chance again.

[HSVREDSLED]

I use powersnipe for all my ebay bids. It is set and forget. It automatically puts a bid in the dying seconds and takes away all the emotion from bidding.

Also good for international bids that end at 3am.

I also sit back and giggle thinking of the other punters out there going "WTF" when my bid hits with 1 second to spare. It can go against you though. I once bidded on an item which was going for about $2000 less than what it was worth. Set up the snipe...watched the final seconds, then WTF? Some punter got it for $800, and my max bid was set at $1200? Later investigation showed my missus used my ebay account but could not remember the password so did a password reset and didnt let powersnipe (or me) know the change of details...when they snipe tried to go bid, password did not accept...

Another story, my mate is a ebay ignoramus and wanted me to bid for a left handed golf club titleist vokey wedge for him...reasonably rare item. So I found one, set a snipe and in the final seconds the bid went from $50 to $131 ($130 was my maximum bid) So some punter got it for $131 when he should have got it for $50. Oh well. A few days later I saw my mate, I told him I almost got the club for him, he said "Ah dont worry my sister got me one off ebay...we almost got it for $50 then in the last second it jumped to $131!!"

[ICETOO]

Originally Posted by Modena

If you are contacted by the seller because the high bidder doesn't complete the auction, then you should certainly negotiate assertively based off your last and highest bid. I wouldn't be mentioning contracts, reserves, or T's & C's, unless you want to scare them off and lose your chance again.

Thanks for the guidance Mods...but hard to do when the difference is 10 grand over what you would of had the car for if an alleged dodgy bidder was involved...however I do understand the mission was to procure this type spec cob rep for fixing up within the budget constraints....but a hard nut to swallow still.

I will have to sleep on it and if this does not happen and the sale is legitimate ..then their is no point being worried about it and I will continue working toward plan B!


BTW having a great laugh at HSVs tale, makes me feel a wee bit better about the whole online auction process...but I probably will not engage online for this scope of procurement in the future.


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