Author: NoddyNoddy
Date: Dec 29, 2007 04:53
> Most auctions claiming no reserve a pure unaduterated bullshit.
> Here's how it works.
> You have the winning bid, go to collect the goods and found you've in
> fact managed to win, at auction, some sort of half-arsed right to
> negotiate with the seller.
>
> What in effect has happened is that the auctioneer has NOT used his
> theoretically single and only bid to pass-in the item. IIRC that's
> illegal if no reserve has been mentioned in any probative way.
> Anyway, therefore you're only the 'top' bid.
>
> About your only defence in this situation is to wait for the other
> interested parties to piss off, and then tell the auctioneer and seller
> to jam whatever deal they're trying to cook up fair up their arses.
You must be pretty unlucky, as in over 700 ebay transactions I've never had
that happen once :)
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