Skiman
Super Freak
Hello fellow Freaks, last night I was bidding on a SIM on eBay and I just wanted to let you guys know about this just in case you might come across the same thing as I did.
I thought this auction was a lil fishy because shipping was so freaking high and from Florida ($75 for shipping on a SIM) but it was cheap from the get go and the bids weren't to crazy on the item.
As some all ready prolly know but to those that might get suckered into this second chase game!!! So here goes, so I was bidding on this SIM last night and it's about 60 seconds and counting til the auction ended, I'm gonna go ahead and say what it was going for and it was around $310 mark (now at this point ur're thinking man what a great deal). Anyways I'm thinking man no one has seen this because it's been a few days since anyone has put up bids on the thing. So 30 seconds rolls by and bam just up about $100, so I'm thinking not too bad, I don't mind the $400 mark still cheap. So me as the usual guy that comes in at the last second I'm thinking I'm goin to get this great deal I have a couple tabs open with my bid place ready to go, well at the last 10 seconds I drop my bids and thing goes sky rocketing into the $600++ mark with shipping. Take note I got outbidded about two times towards the end of the auction.
Ok so I lose the auction, I'm thinking man that saved me some money, well I can save for further pre-orders that I have coming... Guess what the seller contacts me immediately right after the auction has ended, I get an e-mail in Outlook mailbox stating from a PM e-mail sent by the seller not eBay that the winner of the auction didn't think they were going to win and does not have the money to pay the auction, hope you are still interested! Ok now I'm going WTF, now most ppl would jump on this because they would be excited about getting the item and winning the auction as runner up but me, not so much.
Here's my take on what really happened, going with my gut to say the least... Seller has a buddy that bids up his auctions until it's at a safe rage that he's willing to sell it for then gives me the second chase offering after the auction has been bidding up to his liking!!! I'M NOT COOL WITH THIS, if anything you should disregard all of his bids and give me the last bid that I initially put in before this bidder and I dook it out to the end (because it was only me and this other bidder). What is your guys opinion on this, I sent this out last night to a few of my buds here on the board and I wanted to state it out in the open just in case this might happen to you as well, so don't be tricked if something like this happens to you!
At the end the buy it now price was only $10-$20 less than the winners auction bid and my last losing bid but it's the principle of things, if this fake bidder wouldn't of step in and bidded it up it would of went for $310 and not $650!!!
I thought this auction was a lil fishy because shipping was so freaking high and from Florida ($75 for shipping on a SIM) but it was cheap from the get go and the bids weren't to crazy on the item.
As some all ready prolly know but to those that might get suckered into this second chase game!!! So here goes, so I was bidding on this SIM last night and it's about 60 seconds and counting til the auction ended, I'm gonna go ahead and say what it was going for and it was around $310 mark (now at this point ur're thinking man what a great deal). Anyways I'm thinking man no one has seen this because it's been a few days since anyone has put up bids on the thing. So 30 seconds rolls by and bam just up about $100, so I'm thinking not too bad, I don't mind the $400 mark still cheap. So me as the usual guy that comes in at the last second I'm thinking I'm goin to get this great deal I have a couple tabs open with my bid place ready to go, well at the last 10 seconds I drop my bids and thing goes sky rocketing into the $600++ mark with shipping. Take note I got outbidded about two times towards the end of the auction.
Ok so I lose the auction, I'm thinking man that saved me some money, well I can save for further pre-orders that I have coming... Guess what the seller contacts me immediately right after the auction has ended, I get an e-mail in Outlook mailbox stating from a PM e-mail sent by the seller not eBay that the winner of the auction didn't think they were going to win and does not have the money to pay the auction, hope you are still interested! Ok now I'm going WTF, now most ppl would jump on this because they would be excited about getting the item and winning the auction as runner up but me, not so much.
Here's my take on what really happened, going with my gut to say the least... Seller has a buddy that bids up his auctions until it's at a safe rage that he's willing to sell it for then gives me the second chase offering after the auction has been bidding up to his liking!!! I'M NOT COOL WITH THIS, if anything you should disregard all of his bids and give me the last bid that I initially put in before this bidder and I dook it out to the end (because it was only me and this other bidder). What is your guys opinion on this, I sent this out last night to a few of my buds here on the board and I wanted to state it out in the open just in case this might happen to you as well, so don't be tricked if something like this happens to you!
At the end the buy it now price was only $10-$20 less than the winners auction bid and my last losing bid but it's the principle of things, if this fake bidder wouldn't of step in and bidded it up it would of went for $310 and not $650!!!
