From: Anthony R. Gold (tgold_at_panix.com)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 09:16:00 EDT
In message <010001bfa9a1$7451a600$0101a8c0_at_desktop> "Donald Malcolm MacQueen" writes:
> Before I sent my money off to Canada, I did some checking. I sent the =
> following to eBay customer support:
>
> I won auction 23317486. It is for an IBM ThinkPad 600e laptop. I got it =
> for the ridiculously low price of $800.
>
> The seller (playin586) last week sold 15 of these for $925. All nine =
> buyers left feed back for him within 1 hour of each other. The feedback =
> left for each of them on their auctions comes from one of the other =
> eight people in the group of nine.
>
> The seller wants only money orders or cashier's checks made out to CASH =
> sent to Canada.
>
> This sounds fishy to me. I have emailed the seller and asked him for the =
> email=20
> address of one of last week's buyers. I will send the money only then.
>
> Please check this out. Also consider alerting firework21_kr who won 14 =
> units
> before he sends his money off to a possible never-never-land.
>
> I will let you know what I hear back from user Playin586. Thanks.
I admit that I just don't get it. But what facts changed from those
you knew, or which you ought to have known, when you placed your bid
in the first place? Did the seller change the payment terms? What
is your excuse for bidding and now not honoring your bid after it won
the auction?
At this point it appears to me that you are the only one who is not
living up to their promise. But, as I said before, maybe it just
looks that way to me because I simply don't get it.
Regards,
-- Tony - G3SKR / W2TG email: tgold_at_panix.com
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