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Topic: eBay Bigsby Vol/Tone pedal wierdness |
T. C. Furlong
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Lake County, Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2006 4:36 pm |
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The winning eBay bidder for the $3050 Bigsby pedal saw my post in the previous Bigsby Pedal thread contacted me wondering if I knew anything about the German bidder with the 57 feedback rating. Here is the winning bidder's explaination:
"I was bidding on it and I bid $105.00 and I was high bidder . so I logged off. I came back on line a day and 1/2 later and my max bid was set at 11,000.00 plus and my bid was $202.00 and I hadnt even been on line for over a day. So I logged off line to bring the remaining time into perspective and when I Logged back in my bid had gone up to over $3,000.00 .. I didn’t make any bids after I bid 105.00. I don’t know how some one got into my account and set a max bid. But it was out of my control after the max bid was set. I don’t know what I can do about it."
IMHO the moral of the story is... be very cautious about having a password that someone can figure out. There are programs that run common words to steal passwords. My brother had his eBay identity stolen because his password was his dog's name. Now it is a combination of letters and numbers that would be very difficult to uncover.
It seems to me that the only reason that someone would bid a pedal up that high is to try to enhance the value of thier item at someone else's expense. Anybody got any other theories?
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2006 6:11 pm
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He could have entered $11000 unwittingly (decimal point) and doesn't understand the proxy-bidding process. The quote doesn't clearly state that $105 is ALL he bid early on. From the scant evidence available to us observers, it appears he needs to take a tutorial or two: either how does proxy-bidding work? or account/identity-theft/phishing protection.
Or How do I retract my bid? |
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T. C. Furlong
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Lake County, Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2006 6:31 pm
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Good points Ben. What do you think happened with the German bidder that bid $3000?
TC |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2006 8:52 pm
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Thought currency was in marks?
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Here's a sentence William Faulkner or F. Scott Fitzgerald couldn't even imagine writing:
shnitzl (57) kept goosing rosieho's (0) proxy bid at the end, perhaps out of bewilderment, anger, frustration, or just plain disbelief. ("Ach! Schtill nicht der high bitter! Bitt more! Bitt more!") Maybe to win. But if rosieho (0) were a) schooled in eBay ways, and b) prankish, he might have bid $2995, which would have stuck shnitzl (57) with a near-$3K pedal.
Or maybe shnitzl really >wanted< a near-3K pedal...
Great for me--I have one. The big-logo earlier version. I'm thinking of having it declared a Roth IRA. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2006 9:40 pm
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| It's ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ck. Item #7398960511. |
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Charles Dempsey
From:
Shongaloo, LA
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Posted 16 Mar 2006 4:40 pm
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It appears that;
rosieho placed a bid for $105 on 3/4 at 11:18 outbidding vibramute 63 who had been high bidder with $102.51.
son8 bid $111.42 on 3/5 at 22:44 outbidding rosieho's $105.00.
rosieho bid $3050.00 plus on 3/6 at 6:22 outbidding x3blues $200.00 (there's your $202.00)
schnitzel bid $300.00 on 3/6 at 12:23 and then bumped it four times, the last being $3000.00 at 12:26.
The auction ended at 13:00.
It looks very much as though rosieho placed two bids; one for $105.00 just like he said, and the other for more than $3050.00. He had plenty of time to cancel his second bid.
Charlie |
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