Let me be very clear, this is my opinion and my opinion only.
I think some people really need to get a hobby and stop playing around on Ebay. It seems that there is a group of people who get a kick out of bidding on a item on Ebay that has a reserve knowing full well that their bid means "NOTHING" because they do not plan on bidding past the reserve.
Not everyone does this but trust me there are many who do. When I have a reserve I like to let the bidders know what I reserve is, this way they know what it is and they don't have to waste their time bidding on something that they know is out of their price range.
This is one of the reasons I chose to list what my reserve is, the down side of helping some buy doing this is it gives those who are "JERKS" the advantage of knowing how much they can play with. To put it plainly, there are some people who take advantage of me telling what my reserve is, so they can bid very close to that reserve and have no worries about ever being held responsible for buying the item as long as they stay under the reserve. It's a game with some of them and they have fun doing it and some don't take into consideration what their game playing can cause, even worse some do realize what it can cause and do it for that reason alone.
I know I could not tell people what my reserve is and stop quit a bit of this crap but I'd rather not make it tough on a serious buyer just to also make it tough on these assholes who abuse the system and love to screw with peoples heads.
I would give anything to know who some of these people are and have the chance to meet them in person some day, I would let it be known what I think about their silly games.
Anyway thanks for letting me vent and PLEASE don't tell me that if I didn't list my reserve it wouldn't happen, I know this already. If by chance one of you read this post I hope Karma gets you good......
Looks like even going as low as $7000 on my bike it isn't going to sell so these games they play have me a bit down even more because of the whole situation. Some may ask how do I know this is happening, I'm a former PI and I know how to investigate things and at one time Internet Investigations was my specialty.
Oh well I will list it again if it doesn't sell as I feel it won't and this time I may not list my reserve.
Thanks for listening......lol :confused2:
Ron
I think some people really need to get a hobby and stop playing around on Ebay. It seems that there is a group of people who get a kick out of bidding on a item on Ebay that has a reserve knowing full well that their bid means "NOTHING" because they do not plan on bidding past the reserve.
Not everyone does this but trust me there are many who do. When I have a reserve I like to let the bidders know what I reserve is, this way they know what it is and they don't have to waste their time bidding on something that they know is out of their price range.
This is one of the reasons I chose to list what my reserve is, the down side of helping some buy doing this is it gives those who are "JERKS" the advantage of knowing how much they can play with. To put it plainly, there are some people who take advantage of me telling what my reserve is, so they can bid very close to that reserve and have no worries about ever being held responsible for buying the item as long as they stay under the reserve. It's a game with some of them and they have fun doing it and some don't take into consideration what their game playing can cause, even worse some do realize what it can cause and do it for that reason alone.
I know I could not tell people what my reserve is and stop quit a bit of this crap but I'd rather not make it tough on a serious buyer just to also make it tough on these assholes who abuse the system and love to screw with peoples heads.
I would give anything to know who some of these people are and have the chance to meet them in person some day, I would let it be known what I think about their silly games.
Anyway thanks for letting me vent and PLEASE don't tell me that if I didn't list my reserve it wouldn't happen, I know this already. If by chance one of you read this post I hope Karma gets you good......
Looks like even going as low as $7000 on my bike it isn't going to sell so these games they play have me a bit down even more because of the whole situation. Some may ask how do I know this is happening, I'm a former PI and I know how to investigate things and at one time Internet Investigations was my specialty.
Oh well I will list it again if it doesn't sell as I feel it won't and this time I may not list my reserve.
Thanks for listening......lol :confused2:
Ron