I was interested in this pair of tools maybe up to $1K which would be a little under what the retail price might be (maybe $1500). With a week to go I set my snipe max at a bit over 1k to be bid a few sec before closing time. A day before closing time, seller ended auction with only the same one bid of $399. as had been bid before I saw the item. Hmmm? Maybe that's common but never happened to me before. I have emailed seller asking politely why, that I always bid late but had a much higher bid to place etc. No and yet. Is this a common occurrence and what might be going on? Eboo no. 292013861104 Link http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Pair-ROL-...861104?hash=item43fd61e8f0:g:iCMAAOSw2xRYTd6H
I often end items early when they don't seem to be going to get action. But not with a bid on them. They may have ended to sell to the current high bidder. This is the slowest week I've ever seen on feebay.
any eBlech seller worth his salt should know that the last 5 minutes are where BUSINESS is done...!!!!
All my slightly paranoid mind can come up with is some fast-talking buyer, the one with one bid, wanted it and convinced seller to take the auction down and he'd pay X amount more than the bid, in private, and seller would also thus pay a lower fvf too. Musta been some kinda deal worked 'cause the seller is a regular biz and presumably knows the ropes. Or maybe that buyer came to the B&M biz and waved cash around. Well is probably a good thing since I was starting to question my own wisdom in trying to acquire a pair of 450-lbs-ea. tools I'd rarely use.
