STOP asking the seller to end the auction people!!!!!!

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Thank you guys. I think I can sleep soundly tonight. I don't like fighting with people and I really let this get under my skin. I appreciate your responses. Truly I do.

*hugs for everyone*
 
I am sorry if any of *my* posts were unclear, but I am not attacking you. We are just angry that all of this was neccessary, you know what I mean? Trust me, if you hadn't mailed I would have or a bunch of other people. Everything's better than seeing her sold off for a couple of bucks to some a-hat.

I know it's frustrating, but I had asked the seller about the auction AFTER he had canceled it because people were saying he was selling off eBay. I didn't even KNOW about the auction until it was mentioned in BOTH of these message boards. I was just curious about what happened so I asked and then informed everybody what he had told me. I was just trying to HELP OUT. There was NO need to jump on me for anything because I did NOTHING WRONG. I did NOT inform him of what he had. I did NOT help him out with ANY information. So DON'T get on MY case about doing something that I didn't do.

If these responses were not directed at me...fine. But the least you guys could do would be to apologize to me because I took EXTREME offense at how you responded to me. QUOTING me means you were attacking me. I am VERY upset about this and don't appreciate being spoken to as such. I do NOT collect G1. I was just TRYING TO HELP.

And you people say some of us made a BIG FUSS about those Anniversary ponies. Good Lord...
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No, no, no... Please don't think a minute anyone is upset with you. When people start to cancel bids and take down an auction, you have no other choice. Or you should let it go, which I too refused. ;) You did the right thing. *hugs* :22:
 
Huh???

Who in the heck is all this about?

(I mean which pony?)
 
Foxbite said:
This is why I don't sell lots anymore. People message me constantly asking me to set some ridiculously low buy it now or end the auction for them. Then when I refused, they'd say things like "your ponies really aren't worth much more than I'm offering" or "this is the best offer you're going to get, you'd be a fool not to take it."

Some buyers, geez.
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But oh you can really mess with those people though and expose them at the same time. As long as they use the ebay "Ask the seller a question about the item" option, you can post their request to buy outside of ebay and your response directly in the auction for everyone to see. Where you can expose them is to use their ID in your response (since their question won't show their ID)....that way people know who's asking. I think you can also report people who make an offer to you outside of ebay, but maybe not and it's not as much fun as stickin' it to these low-ballers. :prv:

If I see something I'm interested in and I think it might be nabbed away by a back-door offer, the first thing I do is place a bid to discourage the seller from closing it. But because they can still close an auction that has bids, I will sometimes contact the seller. I try to refrain from saying that the pony is valuable, rare or anything like that but just to give them a heads up that I'm interested in it, that I intend to place a higher bid if I get outbid, and to beware of outside-of-ebay offers.

But TwilightStarshine has it dead-on. Once sellers are tipped off that something might be rare, they tend to do a little more research and that can affect the way they list it. I think that's what whippetluv was talking about. But I would MUCH rather have that happen than for it to be taken off auction for one person's offer. It's definitely not fair to those that wanted to bid and most likely isn't fair to the seller who can get easily ripped off. And if they do get ripped off, that's giving a bad rep to us pony collectors. I had one seller tell me "Man, you pony collectors are hard-core!", talking about queroponei's refeated efforts to get buy a Rosey Posey that I had already won and paid for. I had to explain to him that not all of us are like that, most of us play fair but that there are a few "village idiots" in our community. :rolleyes:
 
To answer everybody's question about who it is...it's Sweet Scoops. And now that I'm going back and looking at all his auctions this morning, he only relisted the OTHER TWO ponies. There is no Sweet Scoops to be found. Perhaps he DID sell her offline after all. That would be SO uncool. I hope he's just doing lots of research.
 
Playful Heart said:
To answer everybody's question about who it is...it's Sweet Scoops. And now that I'm going back and looking at all his auctions this morning, he only relisted the OTHER TWO ponies. There is no Sweet Scoops to be found. Perhaps he DID sell her offline after all. That would be SO uncool. I hope he's just doing lots of research.
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Ahhhh.....Now I see why all the interest. One pony I will probably never own. "sigh" unless of course I find her at a garage sale. One can only wish. :daisy:
 
I was watching an auction a while ago with pearly babies, I already have them but i was looking to upgrade and get a deal since it was a bad photo and not a good description....

all the sudden its gone!

pretty obvious what happened, I told the seller, they thanked me, relisted and got more money :)
 
Yes, it is annoying. I know I had a couple of auctions slip thru my fingers that way. Buh. =|

The other week I put a very HTF videogame up for sale, along with some games that I knew I wouldn't even be able to give away, lol.. Ahem.. I put the auction up for a VERY low starting bid.. Not because I didn't know the going-rate for the game, but because I just wanted to let it ride. I got 6-7 offers to end the auction early, I refused them all.. I think others thought that I took the auction down to sell the game off-site, but no. I just found some more crap games to get rid of and added them, too. (Gotta love buying games in lots)

I had to put in the auction description not to bother messaging me about ending the auction early. Oddly enough, even tho the games were previous rentals and not complete, I got close to the going rate of the HTF game NM. =3

I just wish sellers were more aware, or at least make it a point to let auctions ride and not accept private offers. That alone should give people a heads-up that there's something to what they're selling.. Even if there are no bids.. *sigh*
 
I'm SO glad someone's posted about this, because this sort of thing really bugs me. When, a while back, I'd posted somewhere regarding being annoyed with another collector who decided to get herself a good deal by making the Auctioner a deal to yank it off Ebay, I was treated like I had some kind of disease and that I was just being jealous.

(And I don't even collect playsets. Go figure ;) ).
 
yeah i totally know what you mean, i have been bidding on different toy horse lots and i have asked the sellers about shipping and they have come back to tell me that they dunno if they are going to continue the auctions cause so may people are emailing them about a certain horse. it makes me mad. its like stfu people and just bid on the freakin lot. so what if you lose, if you stay on top of ebay you'll find another one *rolls eyes*
 
Does someone still have the link? I have banned myself from searching and therfore buying on Ebay, so I wasn't game enough to try and find it myself lol.

This makes me annoyed too. It happened on a lot I really wanted. Someone must have tipped the seller off because she ended the auction (which had bids!!!) and relisted it with a crazy BIN *grrr*
 
I am seriously considering to start a website aimed at eBay sellers from all countries to inform them about selling MLP on eBay. I'd like to provide trivial information, such as 'what is a true MLP?' and 'what do I do when people offer me [x amount of money] for a pony?'

If only I had more time and a spare domain. Tsk, tsk.
 
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