Buying coins on ebay?

Fighting Irish

I bought a couple of coins on ebay over the past week, and had bids on other coins that were outbid but i received 3 "you have a second choice offer" messages saying the buyer pulled out etc etc

I've bought over 150 items from ebay and have never had this happen before, are coin sellers bidding on their own coins?

citizen_p

Fighting Irish wrote: »

I bought a couple of coins on ebay over the past week, and had bids on other coins that were outbid but i received 3 "you have a second choice offer" messages saying the buyer pulled out etc etc

I've bought over 150 items from ebay and have never had this happen before, are coin sellers bidding on their own coins?

im becomingh an ebay regular as well....

could just be the winner not paying but could be multiaccounts also...
not sure

if thir were only two of yous bidding tell him to relist and see if the same guy (like same amount of feedback if its bidder 1 bidder 2 etc....) or same name if its 1***e

Fighting Irish

Mousey- wrote: »

im becomingh an ebay regular as well....

could just be the winner not paying but could be multiaccounts also...
not sure

if thir were only two of yous bidding tell him to relist and see if the same guy (like same amount of feedback if its bidder 1 bidder 2 etc....) or same name if its 1***e

I'm not really bothered, i'm only looking for irish coins that are cheap just to try finish my little collection. I was just wondering if anyone noticed this happening regularly with coins or was i just unlucky

PCPhoto

I never noticed it -

bought a couple of sets online .... finland 1999 sets (not even sure where I put it) , I have the original starters pack (Ireland) .... I'm not really a collector ...just bought it on impulse ..... also have an american 2dollar note and a couple of £2 coins from England.

citizen_p

ive got a few notgeld.... never had that...

Anthony O Brien

I sell coins on ebay
sometimes the winning bidder decides for some reason that they dont want the coin any more and dont want to complete the transaction (which is really anoying) then ill make a second chance offer. also if i have two coins the exact same ill offer it to the under bidder

Doyler92

I have a heapload of coins for sale if you wish to have a look. PM me for details.

Fighting Irish

Doyler92 wrote: »

I have a heapload of coins for sale if you wish to have a look. PM me for details.

I'd like to try get a full set of all irish coins just for the crack

Here is what i have already

citizen_p

your missing the fifty p and the old farthing.....same bird on both...

i have an old farthing but an idiot holed it. small hole but still...
a ok condition (have to find it) 988-1988 50 p for dublin...

Blade

Because sellers can no longer leave negative feedback for buyers and a whole host of new anti small seller policies brought in by CEO John Donahoe, theres more and more time wasting non paying bidders. So it's not unusual for these items to be offered to the underbidders. Also most coin sellers would have multiple of the same items. Shill bidding does indeed go on and I've seen it dozens of times but it's up to you to put a correct value on the item you're bidding for.

It's a good time to buy now for a few reasons:

eBay has gone to the dogs, their new search is geared towards favouring larger sellers so a lot of buyers have been put off by not being able to find what they're looking for and by being spammed with ads for cr@p they never asked for. Also most small sellers that ebay ran off the site were regular buyers too so as a result their traffic is way down and so are their shares. Add this to the fact that theres a global recession and that it's Summer time and you'll find the prices have never been so cheap there.

Fighting Irish: You'd be better off buying complete date runs and sets of coins rather than picking out a few here and there from different sellers. That way you'll save a fortune on postage. It's different if you had near complete sets but you don't have many and theres a hell of a lot to collect of decimal and predecimal alone.

thomasmi

morning
yes we have olde irish coins from past sailing days ;
many of these sites will have a plague of not reliable travelers.

we tried to sell some collector -like breens coin books- were follow with if your selling ,you need money ,there going ,to help!