Another Ebay dilemma

[daz]

What would you do if you was selling a item which had only a few hours to go, what had very little bids i.e around £50. And a person comes around your house with £350 cash to buy said item.

What would you do?

P.s said item is to far into auction to remove.

[Rocking Donkey]

Can you win the auction yourself? Not sure if this is possible, or arrange for a friend to win it.

Just an idea

Ben

[AmiSMB]

Hmmm tricky one. Sell the item to them and then create a new account on ebay and enter the highest bid as £350 and hope you win! Very underhand I know but it may get you out of a hole. Not that I condone such actions of course!

[Nick Goodall]

Honestly i'd just get a friend to bid it all the way up then you don't have to go through with the deal - you'll pay a bit in fee's but better then getting negative feedback.....

It's about the only option really.

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by Nick Goodall

Honestly i'd just get a friend to bid it all the way up then you don't have to go through with the deal - you'll pay a bit in fee's but better then getting negative feedback.....

It's about the only option really.

I'd 2nd that..

[daz]

Ok then, so you sold said item for say £90 and the winner has yet to pay and someone comes to your house with £350.

What then?

[burgie]

you are legally bound to sell the item for £90.00......as long as the buyer pays within the specified amount of time.

[Southwell]

Email them saying it's broken and you cannot sell it. You are contracted to sell it though.

[HarlowS]

Get a friend to put a proxy bid of £400, then when its sold file for a mutual agreement not to sell, then no final valuation fees are charged

[daz]

Im just trying to get peoples views of what they would do, does money talk every time or are people honest and lose £160.
As for legal terms and contracts to sell i think ebay is a joke, whats a ticking of and a bit of bad feed back worth these days.
Ebay rather you sort the problem out between yourselfs than them get involved. And i wonder how many people have been taken to court over it, i bet not many especially at that sort of money.