Renato, I apologise for my previous post on this thread.
I took everything you had posted at face value and being the truth when I framed my post. I made the rookie mistake of not looking more closely at all the facts that were available, albeit with a little bit of digging. I am not saying that you haven’t been truthful, but when I looked at your transaction with “fresh eyes” this morning I have found something that casts your transaction in a new light, and I have some questions. I will only quote from your Opening Post . . . . . . but will refrain from using the “you stated” intro to quoted text. Any blue italic text in this post is quoted text from your Opening Post.
Last Friday I had the interesting experience of winning a Nikon 1 J3 mirrorless camera with two lenses at a very good price. I immediately paid for it with Paypal. 19 minutes after the end of the auction, the seller then cancelled the sale, citing the reason as,
" I'm out of stock or the item is damaged".
Plainly she wasn't out of stock, and it strains credulity that she suddenly discovered the camera was found to be damaged within 19 minutes of my winning it. I reported the seller to Ebay.
A couple of questions before proceeding:
- if a case could be put for this seller being inexperienced, are you prepared to consider the possibility that the seller is in fact inexperienced, that they did panic because the auction price was lower than they expected, and they botched the transaction and simply tried to correct their mistake within the limited options eBay make available to sellers?
- by interesting experience, do you mean the win was interesting, or the transaction was interesting?
- is it possible that the selling of the camera to you was an unintended error on the part of the seller?
The seller has 41 feedback since joining in December 2011, showing as 37 due to multiple feedback from a member within a week (that’s why padi said you have 924 feedback in an earlier post even though your feedback shows as 721). They have 13 selling feedback, with only 1 selling feedback in the last year (your negative). Their last buying feedback was in July 2017, so while they may use eBay they have not been a ‘regular’ user in the eyes of those of us that use eBay daily.
Now, about your “win”. When I looked at your transaction with fresh eyes I found something that you had not mentioned. I will not pass judgement on whether you deemed it irrelevant or you deliberately omitted it to bolster your condemnation of the seller. The spoiler below is a screengrab of the bidding on the camera (I am putting it in a spoiler so that this post does not appear unnecessarily long).
In summary, the 7 day auction started at 18.02 on the 20th, your high bid was placed at 16:54 on the 27th, and the listing ended at 17:52 on the 27th. This indicates to me that the auction did not run its full course. It would have ended at 16:02 if it had. The header at the top of the completed listing is what my fresh eyes were first drawn to.
With 10 minutes left in the auction it is possible that you would not have won the camera at $187. The auction may have gone much higher with last minute, last second and/or snipe bids. Your very good price may only have been achieved because the (inexperienced) seller panicked when they saw that the price was still low with ten minutes to go and they thought it won’t go higher.
I mean, what do they have to gain by ending the auction early and selling to the current high bidder rather than letting it run full term and then cancel for the reason they gave you if it indeed didn’t reach an expected price?
Two weeks after you “won” the camera there are still 10 watchers on that item (source: watchcount completed listings search, see spoiler below). There may have been more at the time the auction was ended, but let’s go with there being 10 at that time. A case could be put that any of those ten would really want that camera seeing as the high bid was still low 24 hours out from scheduled auction end time. Any of those 10 could have outbid you, but we will never know. What we do know is that you got that camera at that price because the seller ended the auction early.
I contend that they mistakenly ‘sold’ the camera to you when in fact all they wanted to do was stop the auction from proceeding i.e. they are an inexperienced seller who panicked with ten minutes left on the auction.
I think that if you had included the fact that the seller ended the auction early and sold to (you) the highest bidder you would have got different replies from many members who initially posted while not in possession of all the facts surrounding your transaction.
