rage...taking...over...!

[phosfate]

I could spit.

I had an eBay auction finish today, for no small amount of money, and the high bidder does not seem to actually exist. His e-mail address is invalid, and his eBay record consists of two retracted bids.

I've written eBay to see if they can offer any assistance, though I doubt they can or will do anything.

Suggestions, anyone?

Comments

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Boiling oil? Or maybe give him a bikini wax...hot wax...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Maybe a good old-fashioned bikini-tarring? Bring the kids, make a day of it.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

I have some feathers we could use, make things nice and festive...

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

If you file a non-paying bidder alert form, after a certain amount of time you can get the listing fee refunded to you.

Annoying. People are evil.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We'll see what they say in reply to my query.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Heard back from eBay. They're trying to verify whether this is a real person. If they can't, they'll refund my fees. So that's cool.

Meanwhile, they've offered to give me his address and phone number so that I can contact him offline if I wish - noting that they will be required to give him my number in return. Oh, yeah, that's practicing good online safety - give your contact information to someone who's already gone to some effort to screw you. It's a good idea!

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I think they'll also let you relist the item either for free, or at a greatly reduced fee.

I believe there's also a way you can set it up so that you're not required to accept a final bid from someone with a negative rating or retracted bids.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It worked out. I offered it to the second bidder and he was more than pleased to take the item.

I will definitely look into the bid filtering thing.