Posted: 5/11/2010 5:09:14 AM EDT
| I won an auction, (no reserve)I contacted the seller to make payment arrangements and he tells me he ended the auction early, as he sold the items locally? Is this legit, or did he not get what he expected from the auction? Thoughts? |
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I told him that he left me no option but to leave negative feedback, he said that he made a mistake; meant to have reserve on the auction. It was a 7 day auction that he ended after 49 hours and 5 bids. If he ended it nearly 5 days early a complaint to Gunbroker will most likely go no where. If he had ended the auction with a couple hours left your complaint would be considered. |
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from gunbrokers user agreement:
2. Listing. Placing an item for auction is an irrevocable offer to sell an item to the winning bidder. The winning bidder is the highest bidder on the item, or in the event of a tie, the bidder who placed the highest bid chronologically earliest. In the case of a reserve price auction a bid is only a winning bid if it meets or exceeds the reserve price on the item. In the case of a Dutch auction there may be more than one winning bid depending on the quantity of items available and the number of bids placed. Listing an item constitutes entering a binding legal agreement to sell the item to the highest bidder as determined by the rules of the auction. Items listed on this auction site may not be concurrently offered for sale on any other online auction site. Once an item is listed and has received a winning bid, the item may not be withdrawn from sale. Please consider carefully whether you want to place an item for auction no reserve, no "for sale locally", no right to end auction early. It appears to me that A) the auction wasn't going as he anticipated, B) he was able to sell it elsewhere without waiting for the auction to end. |
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from gunbrokers user agreement: ... no reserve, no "for sale locally", no right to end auction early. It appears to me that A) the auction wasn't going as he anticipated, B) he was able to sell it elsewhere without waiting for the auction to end. . Ok so technically he was in the wrong. I've seen a lot of shady things done on auction sites. This really isn't one of them. You're not out anything. Find another gun. |
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Alright, here's what actually happened. The guy got contacted outside of the auction by someone who told him "Hey, I'll give you $XXX if you end the auction now. That way you won't have to pay Gunbroker's fees." So he did. I've seen it happen a bunch of times. Is it right? No. Is there much you can do about it? No. Can you leave him negative feedback? Since you didn't win the auction, the answer is again No. He hosed you. You can't prove it. There's no guarantee you would have won anyway. Just let it go. |
| I have had a number of gunbroker sellers back out on me- one even told me since my 1 penny bid held on a penny auction he would rather give the item away than ship it to me for a penny even though it was a start at penny no reserve auction- said he oops in not having a reserve price blah blah |