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[OM] Re: OT *Bay question. To bid or not to bid?

Subject: [OM] Re: OT *Bay question. To bid or not to bid?
From: Andrew Gullen <andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:23:49 -0500
on 2004/12/11 3:20 PM, Walt Wayman at hiwayman@xxxxxxx wrote:

> ow careful would you be with this seller?  He's been a member of *Bay since
> March of last year, but he (or she) has done only two deals, both sales, one
> in February of this year, the other in April of last year.  That, in and of
> itself, doesn't necessarily raise a flag of any color, but take a look at
> "View seller's other items."  For somebody who's had so little activity for so
> long, suddenly he (or she) seems to have found a s**tload of relatively
> high-end stuff to sell.  Can't help but be a tad leery.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3857909688
> 
> I've been the buyer in close to a hundred deals on *Bay and have never been
> more than just slightly disappointed, and then only a couple of times.  I'd
> like to keep that string going.

This certainly is odd, but there might be a good explanation. I'd put the
question to the seller, politely of course. Though it's not foolproof, you
can usually tell a lot about people by how their conversation.

Andrew


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