eBay - LAC/NAC

[David Glubrecht]

What is the exact point in having a reserve?
Why not just a starting price?
Seems so much easier.
Or at least have E-bay allow a search criteria that excludes "reserve not 
met"

    Dave G


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike LaRosa" <mrmotoguzzi00 at yahoo.com>
To: "Jim Jordan" <capnkidd at sbcglobal.net>; "'Max Wellhouse'" 
<maxjoyce at ipa.net>; <cobram at juno.com>; <iceisit at earthlink.net>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: eBay - LAC/NAC


> the latest scam i got bit on....
>
>
> i had a truck for sale.. reserve was 19,000...
>
> some guy bid 168,000  then when it showed my reserve
> publicly he retracted his bid.
>
> at first i thought he just typoed 16,800 and had too
> many zero's...  it was the e-mail a few moments later
> saying if i lowered my reserve to 17,000 he would buy
> it right know...  that told me he was a sack of
> excrement....
>
> ebay did nothing about this when i told them...
>
> Mike,
>
>
>
> --- Jim Jordan <capnkidd at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Don't be so trusting of the sellers on eBay with
>> high feedback numbers;
>> some of them, maybe many, salt those numbers
>> liberally and eBay has little
>> way to stop it.  Moreover, there are some bidding
>> schemes that are patently
>> unfair to the uninitiated.  I don't consider myself
>> to be "initiated".
>>
>> A selling forum like eBay is just too full of
>> opportunity for crooks.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Jim Jordan
>>
>> >  -----Original Message-----
>> >  From: Max Wellhouse [mailto:maxjoyce at ipa.net]
>> >  Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:35 PM
>> >  To: Mike LaRosa; cobram at juno.com;
>> iceisit at earthlink.net
>> >  Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>> >  Subject: Re: Fwd: For Sale '89 Audi
>> >
>> >  I got jacked around on a $700 kayak sale via ebay
>> with a
>> >  similar Modus Operandae.  they sent me a $700
>> money order
>> >  that really looked legit.  I deposited and waited
>> for them
>> >  to come get the boat.  They never did.  After
>> spending the
>> >  $700, a month later the bank calls with the bad
>> news, it's a
>> >  forgery.  It's the typical Western Union tap
>> dance and the
>> >  post office said the reason they get away with
>> the forgery
>> >  is that the bogus routing numbers on the Postal
>> MO keep the
>> >  check floating in the system since it has no
>> where to go.  I
>> >  was out a total of  $12 for a Western Union fee
>> and that was
>> >  enough of a lesson.
>> >
>> >  Lady from Chicago bought the boat on a subsequent
>> auction
>> >     Live and learn.
>> >
>> >  3 and 4 digit ebay feedback folks are inherently
>> more
>> >  trustworthy, IMHO.
>> >
>> >  DM&FS
>> >
>> >  At 08:41 PM 9/14/2005, Mike LaRosa wrote:
>> >  >all the time fay, usually they are from nigeria
>> though....
>> >  >
>> >  >some prince wanting to give me money... somehow
>> the checks
>> >  always seem
>> >  >to get lost in the mail...  :)
>> >  >
>> >  >Mike,
>> >  >
>> >  >--- cobram at juno.com wrote:
>> >  >
>> >  > >  "Cat     ^. .^   ~" <iceisit at earthlink.net>
>> writes:
>> >  > >
>> >  > > > Any body else on the list get
>> correspondence like
>> >  > > this ???
>> >  > >
>> >  > > Only about 10 times a day.  The "Lads from
>> Lagos"
>> >  > > are prolific if nothing
>> >  > > else.
>> >  > >
>> >  > > BCNU,
>> >  > > http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
>> >  > > We'll be spontaneous when we have time.
>> >  > >
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