David, I'm sorry to hear of the ignorant bidder that tried to slam you.
Ebay's rules on bidding tells you to bid the highest you will go up front so
you don't get outbid. Obviously you bid higher than he wanted to go. That is
his fault, not yours. A year ago I was bidding on a TR7 and lost it in the last
minute like that. Too bad, so sad, it went higher than I was willing to bid and
it ran out of time. But two weeks later, I bought my 76 Spitfire on ebay by
placing my last bid 45 seconds before the end of the auction. I had held the
highest bid earlier that day but in the last hour, another bidder came in.
Knowing how I lost 2 weeks earlier, I waited and bid again and won. I could
have just as easily lost if that other bidder had set a limit higher than my
final bid. Timed auctions are a little different than live auctions where the
two of you could have continued bidding until one gave out. A timed auction
ends at a set time, and the highest bidder at that time wins.
Bottom line, he lost and you won, fair and square. If he writes anymore, I
would forward his emails to SafeHarbour at ebay and they will handle it from
there.
Congratulations on the winning bid.
Howard Baugues
76 Spitfire (bought on ebay)
6? GT6+ (about to take the plunge on this project car)
"David A. Templeton" wrote:
> With all the talk about ebay stuff lately I have a question about "what to
> do when". In this case I was watching an item for my wife's mustang and
> another person had a bid in on it, new ebay bidder ( no previous history ).
> I went and bid on it within the last minute and ended up getting the item.
> Well 10 minutes later I recieved an email from the previous bidder as
> follows:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: that was cheap
>
> talk about sleezy... bidding at the last minute..
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am simply going to ignore this email but if more happens to come is there
> a recourse I have with eBay?
>
> Thanks
> David A. Templeton
> Open Text Corp.
> Waterloo, ON
> Canada
> WebSite: http://trandmustang.homestead.com
>
> '74 Triumph SpitSix '66 Ford Mustang (Wife's)'66 Ford Mustang GT '59
> Triumph TR3a (Project) '99 GMC Safari '95 GMC K2500 Sierra
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