Lucky wrote:

"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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"Lucky" wrote in message
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I tell her listen, he broke the rules.

Yeah, but it's her rule, not Ebay's rule.

But it is Ebay's rule to be honest and honor your auction properly and all
instructions in it. So if she says she ships overseas but tells the winner
sorry, I don't want to ship to Japan, is that her rule too and not Ebays?

I figure I don't have a leg to stand on with this but I should have. By her
own admission she told me she "didn't know" a overseas bidder won the
auction. I guess she lied to me then.

If I offered her the same money he did, and she knows he can be disqualified
since the auction said "Ships to US ONLY" 3 times, she would have taken me
up on my offer.

Now she could of told me I gave him persmission to bid but she didn't cause
she felt she did something wrong. Instead she thanked me for "alerting me"
to this. IMO, she should have amended the ad since Ebay states, "these
auctions are like a contract" and you must "honor them" and said overseas
bidders welcome. Then I wouldn't have bid.

I told her I would pay his winning
bid of $10 more so you would not lose anything and this foreign bidder
can
easily be disqualified since he didn't respect the instructions in the
ad.
She said she would get back to me.

How do you know he didn't respect the instructions in the ad? An overseas
bidder could have the item shipped to a third party in the US and that
third
party could ship it to him. Or, he might be a regular traveler to here
and
he might have picked it up.

Frank, this I don't know. You may be right.

Well, she never got back to me and now I see she left this guy positive
feedback already. Was this right? I mean I bid on the item since there
was
no "ships worldwide" and the seller admitted to me she didn't know he was
a
overseas bidder but sold to him anyway.

Do I have any type of recourse on this?

I dunno. I'm not a lawyer nor an Ebay expert. But, if you're going to
ask
someone to punish her, you'll be asking them to punish her for not
limiting
herself to her own restriction.

I disagree. She didn't changed the info on the auction. How many times do we
see bidders cancel their bid when the seller makes a change to the auction?
Many times. If she made the change, I would have retracted my bid. Then the
item wouldn't have sold for so much since there was only 3 bidders.

It just doesn't seem right to me.

Her restriction probably didn't seem right to the Japanese bidder. After
all, his money is a good as anyone else's. Maybe the seller restricted
herself to domestic bidders because she didn't want to deal with the
hassle
of overseas shipping.

Well yeah, Most sellers don't want the added risk of shipping overseas and
filling out customs papers.

Maybe the Japanese bidder was understanding and made
it easy for her.

Perhaps he did. But I still feel I am right.
She changed the info in the Ebay contract but didn't let the other bidders
and potential bidders know about this. Plus she must of lied to me. This
whole world is going down the drain. No one has morals or feel the need to
do the right things in life anymore. It's all about "how do I come out on
top no matter what". The ends justify the means is par for the course now.

Anyway thanks for the feedback Frank.

You got outbid...

Get over it.

dxAce
Michigan
USA