"Cmd Buzz Corey" wrote in message
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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.


No Mr. Cmd.

Perhaps you would have liked it that way but here is the thread for that
auction and Steve brought up a question if it really was a Europa and not
just a black 150 and then the auction was pulled after he asked. So I wasn't
"low balling it". Some how I don't like your tune.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...db0cf94f3692da



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.

And when it happens to you, I hope you feel the same way.


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.


Yes it does work that way with MOST sellers that won't ship overseas no
matter what. So auctions do 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.

That's right. It cuts down on the number of bidders so if someone states
they won't address all those other foreign bidders and and say so in the
auction, they should stick to it. There are terms that people should stick
to in life. It shows who and what they are in this world. Sorry if you don't
see that.

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.

This is true. I have no idea if that happened. I think it would have been
nice if the seller told me that since I was a bidder and helped bid her item
up high.

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.

No one has to do anything Cmd. For some reason I like to deal with humans,
not robots.

Lucky


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?