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Originally posted by Rick Bradford:
For those of you who buy on eBay, how do you feel about Second Chance Offers?
I send them out and sometimes they're accepted, sometimes they're not. I sometimes find it odd when they're not but maybe they're not as fun as engaging in bidding wars, I don't know.
I've heard at least one person say they never accept them and I gather his reason was because he can't be sure if they're legit e-mails or not.
I'd happily send out unofficial second chance offers directly to customers if that's what people felt better about. But, then again, that's not a particularly safe move for someone who doesn't know me from Adam.
Any thoughts?
I've only had a handful of instances where I've needed to send out a second chance offer after the winner failed to pay or follow through with the terms of the auction.
Of those that I've sent a second chance offer, I had one accept the offer to purchase the item that he/she placed the bid amount.
I think it's the thrill of the chase for the item. Most of my items that were second chance'd out were items that were last minute bidding and not wanting to be outbid.
I can't say for myself as I VERY rarely buy anything on eBay that's not BIN, buy it now. (I'm acronym challenged, HA, so I put what BIN is)
Wish I could be of help.
Unofficial second chance offers will get you kicked off eBay. I would be VERY careful. Remember you can't send any kind of contact to the buyer that they haven't solicited or eBay considers that spamming.
You and I've discussed this Rick and it sure would be sweet if sellers that know I'm interested in **** would just be able to send me an email saying..Hey, Lookie what I have here, want it? But then we could/would transact business outside of eBay and there would be no fee collecting for feebay..which would make them so vedy, vedy unhappy. <smile>
Best of luck,
Donna
