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In Reply to: Urgent e-bay Question! posted by srayle on January 30, 2006 at 17:17:03:
NEVER EVER EVER PARTICPATE IN SECOND CHANCE OFFERS. VERY FEW ARE GENUINE. Are you really sure that you are dealing with the seller who has all the positive feedbacks?
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This is not soo true. I have had to use the second chance offer when buyers are deadbeats. This for me seems to happen more often than not as of late. so dont judge it on that.As for the WU payment, I had a problem with this and actually tried to cancel the payment even before it was processed and sent to the seller. WU did nothing to help. in the end I revoked the payment to WU with my credit card company since WU did noting to help the situation and had over a day to see my email asking to stop the payment from going out. My CC covered it, WU filed a credit report. Western Union is a horible company and I will not do business with them.
Sorry for the rant. AS for second chance, I go by the feedback not the fact that it is a second chance offer. There are a lot of deadbeat bidders out there. I must say though, it sounds fishy that the seller is in the US and the Amp is in the UK. However, If I was a seller trying to scam someone why even disclose this information, maybe he is just an honest guy.
Good luck and let us know how you make out.
and had over a day to see my email asking to stop the payment from going out.
A couple of times where I felt comfortable with the seller, I have requested that the seller relist the item (typically with a buy-it-now price at the price that we agreed on. When I have done that, there was no problem. I do admit that my Buy-it-now experiences mainly preceded the "my messages" feature which also lends some security to the transaction, since you know for sure that it is a transaction through E-bay.
However, I have alos got "second chance offers" in situations where I felt that the seller was using a shill to drive up the price, with the security of offering a "second chance. Those experiences have really soured me on second chance offers.
I have had two second chance offers recetly when purchasing tubes for my preamp. In both cases the seller was able to send me via eBay messaging a private Buy it Now listing. The offer comes into your My eBay message center and usually has an expiration date set by the seller. Both transactions went smoothly.As a rule of thumb if you get an email from eBay or from an eBay seller, a duplicate of that email will be in your My eBay message center. If it isn't it most likely is a scam.
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