ebay question.......
18 November 2012, 08:25 PM
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ebay question.......
Say you find an item on ebay you want and it's up for auction.
Then you notice it says "3 available".
How's THAT going to work? If you bid, you are biding on ONE, surely? So what will the seller do with the other two?
I've messaged her and she just gave me a BIN price for all three. I only want one........
Then you notice it says "3 available".
How's THAT going to work? If you bid, you are biding on ONE, surely? So what will the seller do with the other two?
I've messaged her and she just gave me a BIN price for all three. I only want one........
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19 November 2012, 01:02 PM
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I've seen this before, alcazar. Basically it means the seller doesn't know what they're doing, but Ebay give the option to make more than one available, which is an error on their part when it's an auction format. Sellers with too few braincells can't work out how they're going to sell three units when they only have one auction. I assume your message sorted it?
19 November 2012, 02:24 PM
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it sounds like a 'Dutch' auction
from ebay ----
"......Multiple Item ('Dutch') Auctions.
These are auctions where you can sell more than one of a certain item. Dutch auctions can be done by bidding. Buyers bid a price and say how many items they want, and then everyone pays the lowest price that was bid by one of the winning bidders. If you have trouble getting your head around that, then don't worry - everyone else does too! These auctions are very rare.
What is more common is when a seller has a lot of one item, and lists it using a combination of two auction types: a multiple-item fixed price auction. This just means that you can just say how many of the item you they have, and offer them at a fixed price per unit. Buyers can enter how many they want and then just click Buy it Now to get them......"
or as telboy says - they dont know what they are doing..................!
from ebay ----
"......Multiple Item ('Dutch') Auctions.
These are auctions where you can sell more than one of a certain item. Dutch auctions can be done by bidding. Buyers bid a price and say how many items they want, and then everyone pays the lowest price that was bid by one of the winning bidders. If you have trouble getting your head around that, then don't worry - everyone else does too! These auctions are very rare.
What is more common is when a seller has a lot of one item, and lists it using a combination of two auction types: a multiple-item fixed price auction. This just means that you can just say how many of the item you they have, and offer them at a fixed price per unit. Buyers can enter how many they want and then just click Buy it Now to get them......"
or as telboy says - they dont know what they are doing..................!
19 November 2012, 04:08 PM
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I've seen this before, alcazar. Basically it means the seller doesn't know what they're doing, but Ebay give the option to make more than one available, which is an error on their part when it's an auction format. Sellers with too few braincells can't work out how they're going to sell three units when they only have one auction. I assume your message sorted it?
Nope, she just told me here BIN price for all three was £650.
She's a daft bint, obvious.
She'll end up selling one, have to relist the other two. Let's see if she learns.....or lists "two available" this time, LOL.
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