Losing at eBay & winning anyway?
Posted October 24th, 2009 by Kimberly DowdOccasionally I’ll troll eBay for cheap beads. It’s a way to get a shopping fix while not leaving my comfy chair. Last night I bid on 2 items from the same vendor. The first string of beads I won for 99 cents. On the second string I bid $1.49 and lost to someone bidding $1.74.
When I went to pay for my one auction, I had an eBay message saying that I had a second chance opportunity to buy the other string of beads. The buy it now price was $1.49 – my initial bid. So instead of getting into a bidding war over the other string of beads, I ended up saving money by losing the auction. Weird.
WM thinks either the other buyer cancelled or that the auction owner was bidding on his own auction on a second account, which is pretty low-life. Glad it backfired.
(sits in her rocker & pulls her lap quilt tightly around her old-lady legs)
On a related note, I miss when eBay was a bunch of actual people selling wares. Now thanks to all the wholesalers and auction software it’s so impersonal that it’s like shopping at any other online store. I miss getting “Thanks for winning my auction!” notes from REAL people as opposed to the poorly-spelled form letters from “seller_auto@auctiva.com.” If I don’t get any real-person interaction, I don’t leave feedback.
Dreams:
My brother and I go into a pizza place and Donovan McNabb & Jevon Kearse were at the shop signing autographs. He was much younger than he is now, and was excited for autographs. However, since the guys in the uniforms were white, I was pretty sure the whole session was a scam. Nobody believed me, though.
WM and I find a stray Basset Hound puppy and decide to keep him. He is named Bosco.
2 Responses to “Losing at eBay & winning anyway?”
October 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I agree. eBay used to be like an online swap meet (aka “flea markets” for you back east) and it was great. Such cool stuff. But now it’s all mass-produced crap that’s not worth buying…unless you want to pay $8 for a new cell phone battery rather than $35 from Verizon…
When I used to sell on eBay more frequently, I had a “winning bid notification” e-mail that I sent to the winners. All I did was enter all of the auction’s information. Sure, it was a template but because I wrote it myself, it had personality. You just don’t get that anymore.
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October 24th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
i think that’s why i like etsy.com so much – it’s real people and all the products are made by those real people.
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