[meteorite-list] Warning, Warning tri-ball34

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:10:54 -0600
Message-ID: <AANLkTinOCD3jeXoTU35mb-09fC8KMOKZCQV1JVgJw8+v_at_mail.gmail.com>

I usually have a non-payer in about 1 out of every 250 sales. It's
almost always someone who's new or has a very low number. I'd have to
assume its someone who doesn't know how it all works, or is a kid, or
occasionally its someone who initially was alright but had an
unfortunate accident or such.

Here's a famous example. a 5 year old uses buy-it-now to win a $1
million Transformers collection:
http://www.pr-inside.com/year-old-canadian-boy-buys-million-r187248.htm

I did see someone bid crazy for a short period of time in the fossil
section of ebay a year or two ago, but based on their bidding pattern
of big dinosaur fossils, fake fossils, and toys, I assumed it was a
kid discovering his parent's ebay account.

I don't think Tri-ball is ebay itself.... That would be considered
shill bidding and is illegal in most states.

-YvW




On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM, <valparint at aol.com> wrote:
> Creep!
>
> It brings up the question - how frequently do Ebay sales fall through? I've sold a fair amount of non-meteorite things on Ebay and everyone paid. Anybody have any intel on this?
>
> cheers
>
> Paul Swartz
>
>> He bid up so many of my items that I thought the meteorite
>> market was recovering nicely. Now, that I have spent many hours opening 23
>> separate cases against him and undoing the damage, I see that the market is
>> about the same. It is amazing what kind of chaos a single bidder can cause.
>>
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