Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anytime I see these 'contact me direct to buy' with an email address auctions, I immediately enter a minimum bid, and then the auction gets pulled. Invariably some poor schmuck's ebay ID has been hijacked. As soon a you enter a bid into the ebay system, they pull out of the auction. The other alterantives are to enter a "listing violation" (inclusion of an off-ebay email address) or to contact the seller directly through the ebay link, which puts you in touch with the guy whiose ID has been hijacked. I just bid $100 on this package- watch it get pulled. --- Jim Shulman <jshul@comcast.net> wrote: > Doesn't make me comfortable, for several reasons: > > 1. Seller talks about a $2800 Buy it Now price, but > there is no BIN listed. > There also is no minimum for the package--which is > absurd for someone > selling $14,000+ worth of merchandise. > 2. A ton of desirable equipment, a $100 opening > price, and no bidders with > nineteen hours to go? Equally absurd. There are no > shortage of Leica > bargain hunters out there, but usually on other > auctions the price has > started rising by that point. Not everyone uses a > last-minute snipe > service. > 3. Look at the other merchandise recently sold: most > are $10-20 items, and > nothing of the quality of a Leica. Now look at > what's currently being > currently offered: very expensive items, all with > $100 opening prices. > > There have been cases of auction fraud in the past > where a seller builds up > a sterling reputation, then cashes in on a spate of > large ticket items. I'm > not saying this auction is a fake, but there are too > many things that make > me a bit uncomfortable. > > Jim Shulman > Bryn Mawr, PA > Who has never been disappointed by items purchased > on the LUG. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] > On Behalf Of Henning > Wulff > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:21 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Yes, this funky old camera does > work > > Just came across this. > > Someone with 100% feedback, on 1672 sales over 6 > years posted a good > deal. I'm not interested myself, but maybe someone > is. > > http://tinyurl.com/2x9nlh > > Sounds very good, but who knows...? > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097