HELP! shill bidding or no!?

[domain newbie]

HELP
I'm dying to buy this rug

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=250088361809&rd=1&rd=1

but somebody started outbidding me in last hour

is this Shill bidding and should i give up or no??

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Why do you think it's a shill? Nothing that I see suggests that. Nice rug! Just put your maximum on it and forget it.

 

[Theo]

This rug looks like the equivalent of a two-word, hyphenated, IDN .mobi
Lots of flash, little comfort.

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Like the gronk who may be sitting on it?

 

[hunnam]

Looks like a scam bidder, by that I mean at the end of the auction they will try their best to pretend they have paid and con the seller out of the item.

Normally the seller will give a 2nd chance offer to you if this happens to be the case.

 

[domain newbie]

coz its started in the last hour only, my bid was first, the "competitor" wasn't interested in that previously
its why i think it shill

Looks like a scam bidder, by that I mean at the end of the auction they will try their best to pretend they have paid and con the seller out of the item.

Normally the seller will give a 2nd chance offer to you if this happens to be the case.

yea, its what i thought, no i think SELLER and BIDDER here working together or one person,

i will bid bid to the horrible pricing, then they will be mailing me saying transaction failed, you have second chance offer and stuff?

or maybe they will cancel "his" bid and sell me for a Huge price as they allowed to cancel the bids

dono what to do

want rug badly but dont want to get screwed :undecided:

This rug looks like the equivalent of a two-word, hyphenated, IDN .mobi
Lots of flash, little comfort.

this is 40 years old Persian hand made super rug from Scheherazade tales

u dono anything about rugs


highest bidder now

 

[roseau]

hmmm - its really common for people to wait for the last minute to buy stuff on ebay - but this one is hard to tell bc the guy has private feedback

On the other hand, his feedback is all positive and in the hundreds - off the cuff, it would not seem odd to me BUT then again anything is possible on ebay

Wish I could give you some concrete advice.

I was just thinking here, maybe if he does offer you the SCO, then you could decline and just wait for the rug to relist. Then you would know for sure if the price is legit. It doesn;t help you to get the rug now but you wouldn;t be out all that money if he relisted and you got it for a cheaper price. Then again, I don;t know how much these rugs should go for.

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Don't forget sniping sofware which can lose you an item within a split second. As I suggested, perhaps just put your max on it and forget it. Well, looking, it's already sold. If you weren't the winner, the seller has another batch.

 

[domain newbie]

nah, bought already, couldn't afford upsetting me by missing ,

lil expensive thought :veryangry:

 

[Dale Hubbard]

You'll earn it back on it perhaps at some stage? Looks like a good investment.

 

[domain newbie]

You'll earn it back on it perhaps at some stage?

yea, i recon so, i saw similar ones in local shop from £5000

the older it gets, more expensive

 

[GT Web]

yea, i recon so, i saw similar ones in local shop from £5000

the older it gets, more expensive

I'm sure you can afford it after just a couple hours of work.

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Ohhh the disappointment of an unnoticed double entendre

 

[domain newbie]

Ohhh the disappointment of an unnoticed double entendre

what is "unnoticed double entendre" ,zoo ?

 

[dolansco]

Ohhh the disappointment of an unnoticed double entendre

It did not go unnoticed ... i was busy :lol:

 

[Dale Hubbard]

It means a double meaning in a sentence or statement; usually crude. Let me see what dictionary.com says...

Yeah:

1. a double meaning.
2. a word or expression used in a given context so that it can be understood in two ways, esp. when one meaning is risqué.

 

[domain newbie]

It means a double meaning in a sentence or statement; usually crude. Let me see what dictionary.com says...

Yeah:

1. a double meaning.
2. a word or expression used in a given context so that it can be understood in two ways, esp. when one meaning is risqué.

yea but what u mean by that?

what it has to do with me and my rug?

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Sorry, can't pull that one apart or I might get into trouble.

 

[domain newbie]

Sorry, can't pull that one apart or I might get into trouble.

so why start then? pm me the answer

 

[dolansco]

what it has to do with me and my rug?

which rug ?

thats the question ....