STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Kitty · Hermes

Second chance offer scam

Hermes

yup. they very obviously bid up the item under another identity. it's called shilling and it's against ebay rules. I'd report them to ebay with the details of what happened.

Sibeski · Dooney & Bourke

Did the second chance offer have a high price? That sounds fishy to me also.

I listed some items and the very next day got a "relisting" email from "ebay." The subject line read something to the effect of, "your item has not sold, would you like to relist." Well, my listing had not even ended! I almost clicked on the link because I was a first time seller and thought I might have done something wrong.

Instead I forwarded my email to the spoof site and sure enough, it wasn't from ebay. I would send your second chance offer on to customer service for some investigating.

laken1 · Hermes

Yeah, i wouldn't be so suspicious if they didn't send the 2nd chance offer so soon after bidding. It's very possibly shilling like detroit said. Is it an actually store, like maybe they have several of the same item & only listed one? I've had that happen to me but I didn't get the 2nd chance that quickly after bidding. It took them a day or so.....

Cortney1982 · Chanel

It can also be a scam not by the seller. Like clicking the link in the e-mail and putting in your paypal ID and password to "pay" for the item on the fake website. They then have your paypal information and your screwed.

-- Edited by Cortney1982 at 20:11, 2006-05-24

Tashina · Kate Spade

i just got offered a second chance for an item that i lost. i lost it 10 minutes ago and then got a message that i could have a second chance at it because the previous buyer backed out, but i would have to pay what the previous buyer was going to pay. i would have done it, but i remembered reading this post. thanks for posting this kitty!!

Kitty · Hermes

Yeah, that's exactly what happened to me..I got an offer for what the winner would have paid..not even my losing bid.

What were you bidding on?

Tashina · Kate Spade

i was bidding on a large set of bare minerals. a foundation, a blush, a mineral veil, a fluffy brush, and a set of liner shadows with a brush. i was willing to pay $50, but any more than that and i might as well have just ordered it from them. so i lost and then 10 minutes after the auction was over, i had a message and an email about a second chance offer. it said that the other buyer was going to pay $70 for the set. i sent a message back saying no thank you, that i could get a bigger set than that on qvc for that price and have a 30 day guarentee and then resell what ever i didn't want on ebay.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I think there is a way to check to see if the seller is scamming you. For the so called bidder that outbid you, search for items they have bid on, won or not. If they are bidding plenty from the seller, I think you can put two and two together!

Also, I thought second chance offers gave you the option of your highest bidding price, not the bidder who backed out.