screwed and pissed!

[broken cord]

On one of the other forums I visit a member was selling a 08 1959 Les Paul VOS Historic. He did say he had it listed on Evil Bay as well, but that he had rather sell it to a forum member and would take lower than his BIN price. I made an offer and it was accepted and as we emailed each other in respect to how payment should be sent another party hit the BIN. I was told sorry I have an obligation to Evil Bay. Thus Pissed and Screwed!   

BTW: It was 12 hours later that the BIN and my offer was accepted all transpired.

[FernandoDuarte]

:? You'll have to take it at EvilB price??? that sucks...

[ChunkyMunky]

Aye, don't worry about the little b@rstweard. I'm sure karma will let you reap in the benefits in another form. :P
Perhaps something else much better will pop up. :)

[Jonny]

:? You'll have to take it at EvilB price??? that sucks...

No, I believe the situation is a Gibson Les Paul was on sale and the forum member selling it said he'd rather sell it to someone on the forum. It was also on sale on eBay. Broken cord here went and asked to buy it, and while he was working out how to pay him someone on eBay clicked the Buy It Now button. And the forum member selling withdrew broken cord's transaction (even though he was first to ask to buy it) and went on and sold it to the person on eBay, even though he said he'd rather sell it to someone on the forum.

I don't trust people who'd 'rather sell it to a forum member', if it's on eBay, evidently the person doesn't really care.

[FernandoDuarte]

Ah :?
Bar-stewards always will exist... beat them anyway :lol:

[broken cord]

:? You'll have to take it at EvilB price??? that sucks...

No, I believe the situation is a Gibson Les Paul was on sale and the forum member selling it said he'd rather sell it to someone on the forum. It was also on sale on eBay. Broken cord here went and asked to buy it, and while he was working out how to pay him someone on eBay clicked the Buy It Now button. And the forum member selling withdrew broken cord's transaction (even though he was first to ask to buy it) and went on and sold it to the person on eBay, even though he said he'd rather sell it to someone on the forum.

I don't trust people who'd 'rather sell it to a forum member', if it's on eBay, evidently the person doesn't really care.

Bingo! exactly right Jonny.

[Johnny Mac]

How much was you going to pay for it?

[Twinfan]

He should have taken it off eBay after you'd agreed a deal.

Now he has to pay eBay fees  :lol:

[Philly Q]

screwed and pissed!

I have to say, that thread title could have quite a different meaning to those of us in the UK....

Sorry to make light of the situation.  :oops:

I agree with Dave, he should have taken it off eBay immediately once he'd agreed the sale with you.  A BIN could happen at any time, and once he's sold it on eBay it's difficult to extract himself from the transaction - especially since the other guy, who "bought-it-now", is an innocent party acting in good faith, who presumably still wants the guitar.

What he should do now (if it's not too late) is contact the eBay buyer and say something came up at the last minute so the guitar was no longer for sale, then (through eBay's non-payment process) they can mutually agree to abandon the sale and the selling fees will be refunded.  But if the guy's already paid, I'm not sure what would happen.

[Ian Price]

But if the guy's already paid, I'm not sure what would happen.

I'm pretty sure there's a way around this as well and that you can still agree not to go through with the trade even after moey has chnaged hands. I know paypal do a full refund and don't think they charge a fee, I also think ebay refund their fees - I'm sure they used to.

If it was me I would be asking the guy not to sell it to the other person as a sale had already been agreed.

[dave_mc]

I don't trust people who'd 'rather sell it to a forum member', if it's on eBay, evidently the person doesn't really care.

+1, at best, they're hedging their bets.

He should have taken it off eBay after you'd agreed a deal.

Now he has to pay eBay fees  :lol:

also +1 :lol:

I agree with Dave, he should have taken it off eBay immediately once he'd agreed the sale with you.  A BIN could happen at any time, and once he's sold it on eBay it's difficult to extract himself from the transaction - especially since the other guy, who "bought-it-now", is an innocent party acting in good faith, who presumably still wants the guitar.

What he should do now (if it's not too late) is contact the eBay buyer and say something came up at the last minute so the guitar was no longer for sale, then (through eBay's non-payment process) they can mutually agree to abandon the sale and the selling fees will be refunded.  But if the guy's already paid, I'm not sure what would happen.

also +1. the person who bought it isn't at fault, he/she presumably had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. :)

[broken cord]

I don't trust people who'd 'rather sell it to a forum member', if it's on eBay, evidently the person doesn't really care.

+1, at best, they're hedging their bets.

He should have taken it off eBay after you'd agreed a deal.

Now he has to pay eBay fees  :lol:

also +1 :lol:

I agree with Dave, he should have taken it off eBay immediately once he'd agreed the sale with you.  A BIN could happen at any time, and once he's sold it on eBay it's difficult to extract himself from the transaction - especially since the other guy, who "bought-it-now", is an innocent party acting in good faith, who presumably still wants the guitar.

What he should do now (if it's not too late) is contact the eBay buyer and say something came up at the last minute so the guitar was no longer for sale, then (through eBay's non-payment process) they can mutually agree to abandon the sale and the selling fees will be refunded.  But if the guy's already paid, I'm not sure what would happen.

also +1. the person who bought it isn't at fault, he/she presumably had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. :)

Actually the person who did pull the trigger did know that the guitar was going to be sold and then jumped on the BIN before it could be pulled. However, the seller had a couple of hours to where he could have killed the auction. The BIN was $4,250.00 US or "Best Offer" the buyer had a low offer in when I was told I had an acceptable offer of $3,700.00 US. I think I got shafted. All I can hope is that that guitar is handled by some Gorillia at UPS.

[dave_mc]

oh, that's different then. yeah, that's pretty unethical. :(