Lost Auction/Seller re-lists item an hour later

[Turnitin2004]

I am still not super familiar with ebay so I was just wondering if this is allowed, or maybe there is another explanation.

I was bidding on something and lost last second on the item. 30 minutes later I go to search on ebay to see if I can find a similar item and I see the same person selling the same thing with the same picture listed. I guess he could be selling a second one of this item since its not a numbered card, but it looks to be the same picture.

Is this allowed? Did the seller just not like how much the item went for so he had someone else bid higher to get his product back to re-list? Or is there a more generous interpretation that I just dont know of. And what should I do, if anything, about this. Thanks all.

[Sdog77]

Sounds like it was shilled.

[rwperu34]

One thing you can do is check Terapeak in a few days and that will give a better indication if the card was paid for. And check Ebay completed to see if the card has been listed several times.

I think it's possible it was shilled, but also possible the seller has multiple items. I do that all the time with low end or even medium (up to like $50) stuff. Sell one and before its out the door list another. I do take another picture though.

[hammertime]

I think it's possible it was shilled, but also possible the seller has multiple items. I do that all the time with low end or even medium (up to like $50) stuff. Sell one and before its out the door list another. I do take another picture though.

Same...maybe the seller is just lazy though...message them and ask?

[rwperu34]

Same...maybe the seller is just lazy though...message them and ask?

If you do message, be tactful. Ask if that is a picture of the actual card. If the answer is yes, then it's shilled. If the answer is no, then the seller is just lazy.

[SpartanWarrior]

I am still not super familiar with ebay so I was just wondering if this is allowed, or maybe there is another explanation.

I was bidding on something and lost last second on the item. 30 minutes later I go to search on ebay to see if I can find a similar item and I see the same person selling the same thing with the same picture listed. I guess he could be selling a second one of this item since its not a numbered card, but it looks to be the same picture.

Is this allowed? Did the seller just not like how much the item went for so he had someone else bid higher to get his product back to re-list? Or is there a more generous interpretation that I just dont know of. And what should I do, if anything, about this. Thanks all.

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If the auction didn't have a reserve (which would have said reserve not met when you were bidding), then it was likely shill bidding.

I'd simply not bother to look at that person's listings any more. Life is too short and the simple fact is that no one is going to do anything about it at ebay regardless of how obvious it is.

The only other possibility is that (if the card was re-listed several days later), the winning bidder never paid and the seller relisted it.

You can check the bid history of bidders. Click on their id in the bid list and it will tell you how many bids they have put in during the last 30 days and what percentage of their bids are with that seller. IF it is a LARGE ebay seller that lists thousands of auctions a week then I'd not be concerned if someone had placed 100's of bids and a large % of their bids were with that seller. HOWEVER, if its a smaller seller and someone is placing 85% of their bids with that seller....... its likely a shill bidder.

Good luck.

[Turnitin2004]

thanks all for the advice.

[StateEx]

One other possibility. The winner might have asked the seller to cancel the transaction, perhaps before it closed. Easy to check the bidding records, etc. to be sure.

I wouldn't have thought someone could accidentally bid, but I dropped my phone while bidding on a JD Martinez auto once and ended up mashing the pad while catching it (I was trying to make a $19 bid and made something like a $191,983 bid). It was 24 hours before the auction closed and I immediately messaged the seller, who did cancel the sale, but not until the auction was almost over.