Lucky wrote:


Exactly. Perhaps I should have filled everyone on the important details of
this auction and why I'm so ****ed and why it's not just sour grapes. The
auction was for a Lowe HF-150 Europa radio. Here is my last experience with
a foreign Japanese buyer for a Lowe 150 Europa.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=5751121 391

As you can see it went for $880 from a Japanese collector. You will also
notice I didn't bid on it cause the seller shipped worldwide. This is the
auction where the guy canceled his original auction and relisted it. But
this time he started the bidding at $595 where in the first it was a Buy it
Now for $597.

Sounds like a smart seller, he evidently made more by relisting it. So
why didn't you buy it the first time at the BIN price? Oh, you were
hoping to low ball it for a cheaper price.

This is not the first time I've seen Japanese and foreign buyers paying way
over what they usually go for and blowing away other buyers.

And the problem with that is? Other than it means you don't get the item.

People from
overseas seem to be always willing to buy at very high prices since most
Ebayers won't ship out of the country. So, I always stay away from worldwide
auctions unless it's a little item like Brenda Ann mentioned. Plus these
foreign bidders money is worth more then our US dollar so they can pay more
too.

That's life, deal with it. So what you really want is for no foreing
bidders to bid against you so you can have your item. Auctions don't
work that way in case you haven't noticed.


When I finally found another Europa auction, and I saw it was "Ships to US
ONLY" more then 3 times, I jumped on it.
This is what I've been waiting months for.

So, when I lost the auction of course I was disappointed and sad as any of
us would be for this radio. Then, when I saw the winner was a foreign
Japanese overseas buyer, I couldn't believe it. Yes, it made me100 times
more mad to see this happen.

Why? The Japanese buyer won it fair and square. So you don't want any
Japanese bidding against you because they seem to be willing to pay more
than you are.

The radio would have been mine if that overseas
buyer wasn't allowed to bid since the seller mentioned TO US ONLY in BIG
print. So I was sure this seller wouldn't accept a foreign bidder.

So now you want sellers who have an item you want to disallow any
overseas buyers so you can maybe win the auction. Again, you don't seem
to understand how an auction works. eBay is world wide and no seller is
obligated to disallow certain bidders just for your benefit. You really
need to get a clue. Maybe the Jap buyer had it shipped to a friend in
the U.S. who then shipped it to him. Again, the seller can do whatever
they wish about shipping and they don't have to take your feelings into
consideration at all.


Then on top of that, when I asked the seller about her auction and the
Japanese winner, she thanked me for "alerting" her to this and would get
back to me. I even offered her the winning bidders price so she would not
have lost anything. Not a cent. But she never got back to me with any sort
of explanation.

And she didn't owe you any explaination.

I hope some of you can see why this particular auction annoyed the hell out
of me. Yes, the sour grapes on my part are far more reaching then if it was
a US American buyer. He would have won fair and square.

Just like the Jap guy won fair and square, and the fact that the seller
decided to allow his winning bid and ship to Japan is her perogrative
and none of your business. She can do what she damn well pleases with
her auction.

Sour grapes, you're just hacked because some foreign bidders will pay
more than you will. Get over it, and if the auction game is too tough
for you because sellers won't accomadate you just so you can win, then
you need to find a different venu to obtain your items.
Want some cheese with that whine?