Hi All,
Im hoping to get a little bit of advice regarding ebay. I sold an MCM table last weekend, which was marked as collect only (due to size). The auction ended and was won by someone from Denmark,I though it was a little strange as I had listed it as collect only, but assumed he/she had done his/her research and maybe knew someone in the UK or was coming over for a buying trip to the UK and would pick it up en-route. They didnt pay for it and now several days later after the auction has said that he/she cant find a courier cheap enough and that they want to cancel the sale and that admitted they should have done some research before bidding. I guess I will need to open an ebay case and report him/her for this. However if I do that will I loose the ability to make a second chance offer to the next highest bidder?
Thanks,
bobdavs
If the buyer doesn't want to pay whatever Simon charges for his service, I'm quite sure you can still do a second chance offer after canceling the sale to the buyer. I actively sold on ebay for 13+ years and had this type of problem a couple of times. It's pretty common and Ebay is set up to deal with it to maximize the number of successful sales, since that's what benefits them.
That said, the longer you wait to make a second chance offer, the less likely you are to get someone to accept it. So do it now! File the complaint against the first one and move to the next one immediately if that is possible. (Ebay may require a waiting period, I don't really know.)
I have a feeling that any freight charge is not going to be cheap enough for your buyer. It sounds like someone who bid on a whim and now has second thoughts.
Hi Simon, thank-you very...
Hi Simon, thank-you very much for your kind offer. What sort of cost would the buyer be looking at? Im based in Cambridge, and seem to remember you are up nottingham direction? The problem is its a 120cm tulip table which I cant fit in my little vauxhall corsa!
Spanky, thankyou very much for your help and advice, im going to give it until tomorrow to allow time for simon to come back and for me to pitch it at the buyer. Failing that I will most certainly do what you reccomend, although I have my suspicions.... and agree with what you said regarding the whim thing!
Thanks guys 🙂
You can offer
you can make a second chance offer immediately to the underbidder and also ask the high bidder to agree to mutually cancel the transaction, whereby you will get your listings fees and Final Value fees back for the first transaction (but will have to be paid on any further transactions)
As they've been in contact I don't think there's anything to be gained by reporting them as a non-paying bidder-
the Mutual Transaction Cancelling route is much faster.
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