Got a second chance on this? ebay???

junii

I bid for a goodmans car mp3/cd player yesterday and lost the bid. I got an email today with a second chance offer saying the top bidder could not be contacted or complete the payment (something to that effect).

Whats the story with that? Should I buy it?

Its one of these by the way...
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Goodmans-Car-Stereo-GCE7355-MP3-CD-Player-RDS-Radio_W0QQitemZ130015786514QQihZ003QQcategoryZ108813QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Does this deal seem dodgy, they are refurbished. Or am I safe enough?

Smithers

i hagve bought from them before without any hassel or problem with the product.

second chance offer means they either cant contact the other seller, or they have more then 1 product and can afford to sell to you are your highest bid price

junii

hmmm,
How is it that the postage costs 15 pounds. 3-5 days./?? That ups the price bt e22!

Smithers

thats how they can afford to sell cheeply as suck, the postage brings it up with regular prices

junii

So...the postage doesn't really cost that much then if there making profit from it!
Very misleading.

Smithers

they will say its for postage, packaging, taking it to the po ect,

ebay as far as i know dont charge sellers on postage, so it costs a seller less to advetertise a low price and high postage,

you always always always got to read the whole auction before bidding to avoid high postage and hidden charges

junii

ok, cheers for the advice

junii

I just got one of those now for e56 including that large postage price. Do you think thats a good deal?

Smithers

its seems good compared to the below

http://www.greatuniversal.com/AgNet/product.aspx?sid=RQWB0EKM5F8FM67J85CRV73L052BL8CH&brand=GU&cat_id=15161&zone_id=0&prod_id=268176&fh_secondid=268176&fh_view_size=11&fh_usertype=guc1&fh_location=%2f%2fagency%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b15002%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b15026%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b15161%7d&fh_eds=%df&fh_refview=lister

http://www.inest.co.uk/range.asp?typeid=702&sizeID=

bbbbb

Only one day to wait for the seller to make contact? Be careful it's not a scam

Make sure it's really the same seller and use paypal.

tonyboy247

get real second chance means problems. Personally i would not wipe my buttocks with it ..have you seen that carry on in southerbys?

junii

tonyboy247 wrote:

get real second chance means problems. Personally i would not wipe my buttocks with it ..have you seen that carry on in southerbys?

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

magnumlady

I've bought from this company 3 times. Always been pleased, although a couple of times the delivery was a bit slow.

Easy Rider

It's a scam, don't be stupid..

Wertz

tonyboy247 wrote:

get real second chance means problems. Personally i would not wipe my buttocks with it ..have you seen that carry on in southerbys?

Easy Rider wrote:

Its a scam don't be stupid.

Wow seriously, if you don't know wtf you're talking about don't bother posting bad advice.

Second chance offers are a legitimate selling tool on eBay.

http://pages.ebay.ie/help/confidence/questions/second-chance-legit.html

Just follow the advice from ebay if you're unsure.

As for high postage costs, yes some sellers will up the cost to avoid fees...but in the past I've bought from Irish sellers through eBayUK who, because they sell so much to the UK, use a shipping service that saw them shipping to a central UK location and then sending individual items on from there. It might seem a little wasteful to have the item you've bought get sent from here to the UK and then back again but that's automated systems for you....not all eBay sellers sell from their spare room