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I have been getting complaints from some eBay buyers that, after winning an item, they are often contacted from people wanting to buy that item from them.
If there is an item on ebay that you want, please bid on it, have someone else bid on it for you, or try to arrange some sort of trade to acquire that item before the auction ends. Please try to refrain from contacting ebay winners directly with offers to buy items from them (chances are if they just won the item, they do actually want it 🙂 ). If there is an ebay item that you desperately want that was won by someone else, you could try putting an announcement or offer in the flea market, the ebay auctions thread, or even your signature.Buyers: One thing you can do that might help is to make your ebay feedback private. The instructions are here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/feedback/profile-public-private.html
This will keep your actual feedback comments private so no one can see your past wins, but other buyers and sellers can still see your feedback score.Just out of curiosity since I’ve seen it happen on here in the past.. How in the world do people know who is bidding on things? People’s usernames are kept private during bidding (and I thought afterwards too) for a reason, and it makes me feel uncomfortable that somehow people are figuring out who is bidding on things on ebay (and in some cases, posting it here! Not cool!).
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Hannah, they can probably see through windstone’s feedback. Either people who leave windstone feedback or through the “feedback left for others” on the windstone page. You can see what auctions each feedback was for within the last 90 days I think. If this is the case, windstone can always set their auctions to private so you can’t see what auction each feedback corresponds to.
I’ve noticed it happening a lot with the grab bag unicorns too, people don’t even post theirs in the brag thread for fear of getting tons of PMs with trade and purchase offers.
Sellers cannot make their feedback private. Ebay policy. If you as a buyer make your feedback private, it will prompt you to agree to this clause, that if you make it private, you cannot sell.
Scenceable – I see, that makes sense.. I’m still a little confused, as I know some people have sent messages to others when they’ve bid on something and before the auction even ends. That type of thing just makes me uncomfortable and a little nervous.
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I didn’t realize that you can’t sell with your feedback private. Thanks for pointing that out.
But yes, everyone please try to resist as much as possible contacting other forum or ebay members with trade or sale offers on items that the person is not currently selling..
Ashley- that can’t make their feedback private but they can make the auction private somehow. I’ve gone through feedback from sellers where you can’t click the recent auctions to see which they were. I think it’s a setting on each specific auction.
Hannah- not sure about that! Maybe some people recognize each other’s feedback scores. Who knows.
Edit: Here’s a page I found… http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/private.html#when aside from hiding the feedback I’m not sure what else making the listing private does though.
Hannah- not sure about that! Maybe some people recognize each other’s feedback scores. Who knows.
That’s exactly how it works. The name is censored but the feedback score is not. You can relate the feedback score to someone bidding to the feedback on windstone. The only way to get around it would be for windstone and the buyer to not leave feedback for each other. Which isnt optimal, since you need the feedback.
Hannah- not sure about that! Maybe some people recognize each other’s feedback scores. Who knows.
That’s exactly how it works. The name is censored but the feedback score is not. You can relate the feedback score to someone bidding to the feedback on windstone. The only way to get around it would be for windstone and the buyer to not leave feedback for each other. Which isnt optimal, since you need the feedback.
I see, so it takes a little guess work. :/ I wish people would not contact me about bids that I have placed (I doubt I am the only one) 🙁
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!A private listing would also hide that information… (feedback of each buyer, along with the g****h or whatever. It just says “private”.)
Also, ebay scrambles usernames consistantly. your username will show up as
a****h every time-or however it shows up- that was just an example.I guess Ive gotten lucky-I haven’t ever had anyone contact me after the auction wanting to buy the thing from me. But then again, I’ve only bid on one thing from Windstone in….maybe more than 6 months? gosh!
On the doll forum I am on, it is actually against the rules of use to contact people about dolls or items that are not listed as for sale in the marketplace. You can get warned, and then banned for breaking this rule repeatedly. This forum is much less strict, but perhaps people should understand that this is a privledge that shouldn’t be abused. Everyone loses out on something they bid on, or hope to get. That’s life. If you had wanted it that much bid your max. Sniping services only work because the people using them are willing to spend whatever it takes to get something, you know. and the winners shouldn;t be harrassed because they won an item. They won it. They did not “steal it” or even “snipe it” to delibrately take it from someone else. (in 99% of the cases anyhow.)
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As long as Windstone’s feedback lists the winners, people will be able to figure out who a bidder is provided they have won a Windstone auction before. You simply look at the scrambled name, take the feedback score, star color, and available letters then look at Windstone’s feedback and match it up to someone. Making your feedback private will make you stand out especially well using this method. If Windstone could make the auctions privite (I don’t know how to do it, but I’ve seen other sellers do it.), then you might be able to help.
I had never thought to do this until one of my friends told me she had the problem being discussed here. She would win an auction and immediately get messages asking her to sell what she had won before it was even shipped to her. She told me exactly how they were doing it. The only advice I could give to her was to either ignore them and delete their messages or tell them flat out that she is not interested in selling no matter what. The sad thing is that some people have bugged her so much that she did break down and sell.
I’m lucky though. So far, no one’s contacted me about selling anything, but I also hardly post pictures of anything I’ve won.
This is a complicated situation, and I welcome your input, everyone.
We do have a rule that you may not use the forum to contact another member and try to dissuade, bully, harass, or otherwise attempt to discourage them from buying or bidding on a Windstone (here, eBay, or anywhere).
I am worried about making a rule against asking to buy an item once someone else owns it though. Is there a difference between saying “Can I buy that from you?” and “If you ever sell, let me know?” … I tend to think there is, but that is only one opinion. And where exactly do you draw the line? Very complicated.
I welcome your (civil!!) discussion.
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My art: featherdust.comThat’s seriously a shame that people don’t post their pictures for fear of getting jumped on… I mean, I know once in a while I’ll see something and post IN THE THREAD about how I’d love to have such-and-such piece and that I’d buy it if they ever decided to sell, but it makes me sad that some individuals will hound others until they sell – I’m sorry that happened to your friend 🙁
Edit: Jennifer brought up exactly what I was typing! XD I don’t think there’s anything wrong with expressing interest in a piece when you’re doing it publicly (you’ll see me doing that a LOT – eg “OMG I LOVE THAT!! Will you keep me in mind if you ever want to let it go? XD”) but to harass someone privately I think is a different matter. Just my 2 cents 🙂
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