videojetman":24h6w03h said:
i suspect the seller was only frustrated at not selling an item.
but to refer to watchers as sado's is a bit stupid.
Agreed. He should realize that watching does not obligate the watcher in any way.
Of course, eBay doesn't require all sellers to pass a sanity test, so you get all kinds in that arena. I've seen a seller list an item for 10 days only to end the auction after 7 days with no bidders, then relist it a week later and state in the description that the reason it was ended early the last time is because there were no bids, and that he would do it again if nobody bid on it early, as if he was holding the item hostage :roll: He ended the auction early the 2nd time around also. The poor guy was only hurting himself by not selling that which he wanted to sell. I think he was inexperienced and didn't realize that most people who really want a particular item on eBay will wait and try to snipe it within the last few seconds rather than bid it up all week. Whether as a buyer or a seller, I always find the last few minutes of an auction to be an exciting rollercoaster ride wherein the high bid rises exponenentially as the deadline nears, although I do admit to having a mild anxiety attack each time I'm the buyer doing the sniping (palpitations, sweaty palms, shaky hands...).
I've also seen a seller lower his asking price within 3 days of an auction's end because there were no bidders. It was a 1992 Fisher HKEK in pristine condition, and IIRC he was asking about $400, which I would have paid, but my intention was to snipe, and he lowered the price to about $200, and as it turned out, I was the only bidder anyway. That seller lost $200 because he was impatient, and unless he was in a hurry to make some money, he obviously didn't realize that if the item didn't sell the first time, that he could have re-listed it with a different asking price without paying any additional listing fees. He would have been better off if he had simply allowed the auction to run its natural course.
In any case, chigwah should wake up and realize that if he puts a price on an item and offers it for sale to a worldwide audience, and it doesn't sell, then nobody wants it, period. In addition, he needs to be patient and ride out the auction until the end, and not let himself get all wound up by a few jokers along the way. I imagine that if he had played along light-heartedly with the jokers, he could have endeared himself to whoever saw that auction, which would have garnered him a lot more publicity and thus more potential sales as people perused his other items for sale; but he chose to repel people instead, which only serves to hurt himself.
