Second Chance offers

[deejay726]

I have been recieving quite a few of these but they happen right after the auction is over. Are sellers using dummy accounts to bid up auctions then when they over bid you give you a second chance offers. i could see after a couple of days or a week after someone has not paid to to get a sco on the same day seems fishy

[JerseyDevil65]

I have been recieving quite a few of these but they happen right after the auction is over. Are sellers using dummy accounts to bid up auctions then when they over bid you give you a second chance offers. i could see after a couple of days or a week after someone has not paid to to get a sco on the same day seems fishy

Maybe they have multiples of the same item.

[doubledownon11]

I have been recieving quite a few of these but they happen right after the auction is over. Are sellers using dummy accounts to bid up auctions then when they over bid you give you a second chance offers. i could see after a couple of days or a week after someone has not paid to to get a sco on the same day seems fishy

Definately a possibility, but multiples is another possibility. I've also done it before when someone told me they "accidentally" bid too high and I let them out of the deal so I sent a second chance offer to the 2nd bidder.

[Bojay1997]

I've sold a few items and immediately have done a second chance offer because I had a second identical item. It's easier than relisting, takes less time and if you have two bidders in a bidding war, it's a great way to sell two of the items at a higher price than you otherwise would. I've also bid on auctions where I suspected shill bidding has happened where I immediately received a second chance offer. Even in those cases, I typically would buy the item because if I bid on something nowadays, it's usually something I really, really want and haven't been able to find elsewhere.

[tmlfan]

I have gotten a few "second chance" offers that were bogus, an emailing saying/ looking like ab ebay email but a bogus link thats trying to steal your info, just make sure you go to the ebay website and see the offer in myebay

[ryborg]

It is extremely unlikely you're being shilled into a fake second chance offer, but it is possible. It depends on the item. If it's something unbelievably rare or something a person could not possibly have two identical copies of, you might have a case.

I sell a lot of items and I send out a lot of second chance offers. Less than 10% of them get accepted, even when it's a good price. It really doesn't make sense for a seller to go through the trouble of shilling an item with an alternate account, winning it, then sending out "fake" second chance offers.

[TRM]

I really don't think that you are being unreasonable at all. It was his fault for sending you the wrong item to begin with...

[mnbren05]

I don't know. I bid on a 360 pro system a few months ago and my absolute max was $350. The auction sat at $100 for about a day and then suddenly was bid up to $355 (by a zero feedback bidder). The bidder then must have had a bid retraction because the price went down again. Then a day later (with 2 days still left) another zero bidder bid me up to $350 exactly. 10 mins remaining the zero bidder bid it up to $450 and it ended there. The seller quickly messaged me and said that "Geeze, these zero bidders just must have been tools. They didn't want the stuff so you can have it for $400." I told him know and he kept offering to knock it down a couple bucks. I refused to deal with him or anyone of his kind.