on โ19-02-2018 08:39 PM
It seems the seller jacked the price up by $500 because we inquired if pickup was ok by a commercial operator. Is this permitted?
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on โ19-02-2018 08:45 PM
on โ20-02-2018 11:06 AM
on โ19-02-2018 08:45 PM
on โ20-02-2018 12:00 AM
@robertybob-46wrote:It seems the seller jacked the price up by $500 because we inquired if pickup was ok by a commercial operator. Is this permitted?
Who owns the item at the moment, you or the seller ???
Its his property and he can do whatever he likes with it, including withdrawing it from sale, choosing who they sell it to by blocking you from buying it and selling it some-one else instead or increasing the asking price if he believes he can get more for it that way. Thats what people are allowed to do in Australia with things they own.
on โ20-02-2018 12:13 AM
@robertybob-46wrote:It seems the seller jacked the price up by $500 because we inquired if pickup was ok by a commercial operator. Is this permitted?
It's probably not best business practice to go changing prices upwards when there are watchers, but if there have been no bids,a seller can change the price up or down as they wish.
You of course do not have to bid.
$500 is a massive rise, it makes me wonder if perhaps the auction was in its final days & the sellers had not had the bids they were expecting & were scared of seriously under pricing it.
In some ways you may be better off they made the change to the price before you bid, as if you had won the auction at $500 below the price they were after, they may have decided not to go ahead with the sale anyway. At least now you know where things stand.
on โ20-02-2018 08:48 AM
seems a great way to warn possible buyers your not a good seller.
i would not buy from this person, who knows what other tricks he/she may pull after you buy.
this action yells AVOID
on โ20-02-2018 09:11 AM
Unless there were more watchers than just OP then no other potential buyer is going to know the price was jacked up and could possibly buy the item.
This practice has been going on for ages basically because sellers are sick of so many watchers which in fact are 99% of the time the competition lol watching the listing to the end without bidding or buying so they jack the price up as they're peed off in most cases.
I was never a fan of the watching system and still not and it should be scrapped!
on โ20-02-2018 09:24 AM
i sell, i watch, i buy.
i do watch items i have myself up to sell but ive never raised my prices. i have lowered my prices.
i do my maths, set my price and thats it.
i have watchers watching my items who never buy, i'm fine with that as i dont know why they are watching.
could be another seller
could be a potencial buyer
could be a buyer hoping my price might get lowered.
i dont care.
i run through my watched list every week or so, deleting items i no longer have an interest in or have got at a better price elsewere.
i add items to my watched list almost daily
the watched list is tool, nothing more.
on โ20-02-2018 09:43 AM
@robertybob-46wrote:It seems the seller jacked the price up by $500 because we inquired if pickup was ok by a commercial operator. Is this permitted?
The seller obviously wants to discourage you from buying because they must think you think they are a complete nut if they would ever agree to you using your own carrier unless you were fully prepared to pay by bank transfer ot other non safe payment method.
on โ20-02-2018 11:04 AM
on โ20-02-2018 11:06 AM