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kwopipan2013 · ‎03-30-2014

I tried to enter a maximum bid of US $40.00 for the item in the link below, but my bid got mysteriously rejected. And to my surprise the very item sold for only US $33.00.

I am really beginning to lose faith in e-bay's customer service, and the way it runs its business in general. Perhaps I am not good enough of a customer for them to be treated in such a manner ...

I have been a loyal e-bay customer from day one, and my track-records show otherwise ... I think I should now stop dealer with e-bay all-together, and move my business elsewhere ...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/291108360043?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

toby_le_pue · ‎03-30-2014

How much time was left when you tried to enter your bid.

femmefan1946 · ‎03-30-2014

Day One was over a decade ago. You've been a member for about a year.

In that time you have left one negative and one questionable feedback. Your seller may have cancelled your bid because of those. Which seems paranoid, but...

The seller may have generic Blocks against certain countries, or people with Unpaid Item Strikes, or violations, which we could not see.

Or as suggested, your computer may not have been fast enough to exercise your bid before the end of the auction.

ut.babe · ‎03-31-2014

Or you may have had a typo and entered $30 as your max bid instead of $40. If you look at the bids for the item there was a bid of $30 from a buyer with the same feedback count as you (22).

Done it myself and kicked my butt afterwards but I'm guessing that might be what happened?

chimera148 · ‎04-01-2014

Yes, with k***w as the bidder. Seems the seller offers free shipping to Canada from Israel.

gendun.chodzom · ‎04-02-2014

I've had that happen, too. It's not that anyone 'cheated' you. Electronic communications go sideways for many reasons. All of the ones named by others could be valid, or it could simply be that the transmission got dropped or lost somewhere in the web. I wouldn't take it personally.

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

Yes, and Arabic is my first language ...

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

I didn't know leaving "one negative and one questionable feedback" is a crime.

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

There was plenty of time,

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

Yes, I bid $30 before, then got outbid that when I tried $40, but it wouldn't go through. I was even more than willing to go higher than $40 if someone would have outbid me ...

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

Even though, I was able to purchase an item from Israel once before ...

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

I suggest you should go back to those cases, and take another closer look as to why I "left one negative and one questionable feedback" then ...

kwopipan2013 · ‎04-13-2014

Are you implying my user name sounds offensive to some people, and should change it to something more "canadian acceptable" sounding one, in order to continue being an e-bay member?

pjcdn2005 · ‎04-14-2014

@kwopipan2013 wrote:
Are you implying my user name sounds offensive to some people, and should change it to something more "canadian acceptable" sounding one, in order to continue being an e-bay member?

I have no idea where you got the impression that anyone was implying that. It is easy to misunderstand something when it has been written rather than said face to face so I think that you are taking something in the wrong way.

pjcdn2005 · ‎04-14-2014

@kwopipan2013 wrote:
Yes, I bid $30 before, then got outbid that when I tried $40, but it wouldn't go through. I was even more than willing to go higher than $40 if someone would have outbid me ...

That's why it is a good idea to put in your maximum bid right away. If you had bid more than $40 first, instead of just $30, you might have ended up winning. Let's say you were willing to pay $50...if you had put that in as a maximum bid and the other bidder had a maximum bid of $33, you might have won the item for $34.

chimera148 · ‎04-14-2014

@kwopipan2013 wrote:
Are you implying my user name sounds offensive to some people, and should change it to something more "canadian acceptable" sounding one, in order to continue being an e-bay member?

No, I have no idea why you would think that.