Originally Posted by
zaranvalesasterix
I noticed on Saturday that there was an auction just about to end for some scrap gold worth around £800 with a bid of £100 which hadn't met the reserve. They had postage of £4.10 for 1st class only which LovesVintage had queried but they had not replied. It looked very genuine and I was concerned that someone would come in late and snap it up for a silly amount just above the reserve, so I put in a realistic bid which, in fact, only registered the reserve price of £250.
My thoughts were to stop this person from selling it for a price well below it's worth, although I wasn't certain if it was naivety on their part of if it was a scam but I thought that I could cancel the transaction and tell them to send it to one of the good gold buyers and get £800.
I had to go out as soon as I had put on the bid so didn't know what had happened until I got home later in the day, when I then saw that they had not verified their contact details so their status is pending.
I then checked on ebay and saw that it had been sold on there for £633 (so I think naivety was the problem) but it was sold on Thursday, 2 days before the auction finished on here!
I have lots of sad thoughts on this, the biggest one being that it could get a huge load of attention on ebay but very little on here, and another one is that ebid will be prey to the less than honest side of peoples nature.