Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

[cohibasmoker]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

Huh?? A person who would sell an item then decide not to complete the transaction is shady in my opinion. Like i said before, dont sell an item via an auction if your not gonna sell it, that smells of an indian giver and nobody likes that

You are absolutely correct but in reality, what can you do? Absolutely nothing. eBay does have it's pitfalls but one thing is certain, whatever we are looking for, sooner or later, it will show up on eBay.

Just my opinion - hope I didn't offend anyone.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

[5kRunner]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

I've never read the legal mumbo jumbo on ebay, but you CANNOT enforce a contact in which a reasonable person would have recognized the price was a mistake. If the price was an honest mistake (the orig poster recognized it as a possible error), you cannot take advantage of the seller and force him to sell it at that price.

If the price tag on a new BMW says $4,000 and it should have been $40,000, you can't force the car dealer to sell you the car for $4k because a reasonable person would have known a new BMW would cost more than $4k.

[rose14]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

I think the seller should man up and honor the sale. If were talking a couple of hundred dollars he should honor the sale. He listed it as a BIN and screwed up. Now if he listed something for $1,000 and it should have been $10,000 it's another story and he should explain himself.

I have listed an item before with a reserve and it was bid up to $800 and didn't meet the reserve. I put it back on Ebay the next week and it only brought $126. I could have easily cancelled the auction, made up a story but I honored the deal even though I lost over $500 dollars that I had invested in the item. It is the sellers responsibility, especially with a BIN that it's correct before hitting the submit button.

[MarinersFan34]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

Ebay makes it OK for Buyer to retract bids because they made a "mistake".

I'm in the crowd that's forgiving of sellers making listing mistakes. eBay clearly leaves the door open on this because if a buyer can retract a bid for a "mistake", then a seller should have that same right. If the seller cannot retract the sale on a price/listing mistake, EVERY bidder should be held finacially responsible for EVERY bid that is made using their account even if it's their kid bidding as a joke. Your kid bid 50k on something, own up to it, it's your debt now!

[eisenreich8]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

Ebay makes it OK for Buyer to retract bids because they made a "mistake".

I'm in the crowd that's forgiving of sellers making listing mistakes. eBay clearly leaves the door open on this because if a buyer can retract a bid for a "mistake", then a seller should have that same right. If the seller cannot retract the sale on a price/listing mistake, EVERY bidder should be held finacially responsible for EVERY bid that is made using their account even if it's their kid bidding as a joke. Your kid bid 50k on something, own up to it, it's your debt now!

Couldn't agree more with every point you made!

Balance.

[lowell25]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

I just had a silimiar issue. I just won a Mike Cameron game used bat from MASAUCTION on ebay. I went to pay today for it and it was removed from my win column. I emailed them and haven't heard anything. I didn't receive any info why they removed it, WTF. Anyone deal with MASAUCTION out of Milwaukee before.

[lowell25]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

Masauctions Emailed Me And Now Sending Out My Bat. They Couldn't Figure Out What Happened. Sorry.

[BergerKing22784]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

Glad I just read 6 pages of back and fourth arguing yet we still do not know the item in question, the price it sold for etc....

If its an honest mistake you got to let it go...


I will agree that it does suck though when sellers backout when they just wernt happy with the price the item sold for. The seller took the risk of not starting it at the lowest price they wanted or when they dont put a reserve on the item because they know it keeps people from bidding (such as myself wont really bid on items with reserves) Item ends for a really low price and than they are like screw that I am not selling it for that!

[tknorm]

Re: Anybody ever purchase an item and have the seller refuse to sell?

Lowell25-glad it wokred out. I also collect Mike Cameron items, so e-mail me if you want to compare notes. I'd be interested to know what all you have.

thomaskirk @ Cinci.rr.com