OMG Ebay users are getting really lame, threatening me with prison

My only concern would be this:

Davyb said:
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Also if I was a buyer, my instant thoughts were that the email comments about it being worth 5k looked suspiciously like they would have been made by a friend of the seller.

I just don't understand why the OP keeps insisting in this thread that he genuinely doesn't know what it is worth. Yet he acts like he knows it is worth very little.

If I listed an item on ebay, with no reserve and obviously didn't expect to get much for it - only to have a random person tell me it might be worth 5k and then to see bids of over 1k start to come in, I think I would probably be concerned that maybe I was in possession of a very valuable item, and that I could be about to sell it for a lot less than it might be worth.

But the OP doesn't seem bothered about finding out its real value?
 
div0 said:
My only concern would be this:



Also if I was a buyer, my instant thoughts were that the email comments about it being worth 5k looked suspiciously like they would have been made by a friend of the seller.

I just don't understand why the OP keeps insisting in this thread that he genuinely doesn't know what it is worth. Yet he acts like he knows it is worth very little.

If I listed an item on ebay, with no reserve and obviously didn't expect to get much for it - only to have a random person tell me it might be worth 5k and then to see bids of over 1k start to come in, I think I would probably be concerned that maybe I was in possession of a very valuable item, and that I could be about to sell it for a lot less than it might be worth.

But the OP doesn't seem bothered about finding out its real value?
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Its ebay, im not bothered about real value of it at all , if it sold for 99p i wouldnt give a hoot, worldly possesions have never bothered me, im not that type of person, and im not insisting anything, and the thread wasnt not here to find its value it was simply to point out how lame people are on the other end of keyboards
 
hyperst said:
Its ebay, im not bothered about real value of it at all , if it sold for 99p i wouldnt give a hoot, worldly possesions have never bothered me, im not that type of person, and im not insisting anything, and the thread wasnt not here to find its value it was simply to point out how lame people are on the other end of keyboards
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People are lame, especially over the internet.

However, ebay scams do cause a lot of frustration. It may not have been your intention, but your page reads to me like you are hoping someone will mistake this for a valuable item, when you know it's not.

The person who emailed you is most likely just annoyed at the amount of people who deliberately try to mislead buyers.

The email comments referring to the possible 5k value of the item look very staged imo.

It appears that this sort of item can either be a cheap imitation, or a valuable antique - and by being 'vague' as to the value, you were always running the chance of having someone try and deliberately ruin the auction.
 
div0 said:
People are lame, especially over the internet.

However, ebay scams do cause a lot of frustration. It may not have been your intention, but your page reads to me like you are hoping someone will mistake this for a valuable item, when you know it's not.

The person who emailed you is most likely just annoyed at the amount of people who deliberately try to mislead buyers.

The email comments referring to the possible 5k value of the item look very staged imo.

It appears that this sort of item can either be a cheap imitation, or a valuable antique - and by being 'vague' as to the value, you were always running the chance of having someone try and deliberately ruin the auction.
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I know what your saying but i have nothing to hide and the questions are not staged, i can prove it if you think im a liar, do you think i would be that stupid.

 
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hyperst said:
I know what your saying but i have nothing to hide and the questions are not staged, i can prove it if you think im a liar, do you think i would be that stupid.
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I'm not accusing you of anything. Just trying to point out how some people might think it looks and why the guy might have felt like you were someone 'trying it on'.

Still doesn't excuse his behaviour though.
 
I'd never sell something like this on ebay and trust Paypal! The buyer could receive it and say "Not as described", get a refund then bugger off with it.

As soon as I saw bids going over £1k I would have pulled the auction and had it valued then sold to a specialist if indeed it was worth something.
 
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