for sale on Ebay

[dakotamouse]

What changes did he make to his ad? Just curious.

[Podunkfla]

SOLD for US $7,151.00 Nice to see a tear of that quality bring a good price. Someone did get a pretty tear.

As for what he changed in the listing... he added this:

On Jun-08-07 at 13:19:17 PDT, seller added the following information:
Thanks to everyone that has shown interest and enjoyed viewing this great little camper,
we have enjoyed offering it to you.....
"This seller has NOT changed the description of the item".
Reserve is $3500.00, cost to build $6500.00
Auction will run to the end, highest bid over reserve wins!
NO SECOND CHANCE OFFERINGS!
Good Luck!~

[Gaelen]

What changes did he make to his ad? Just curious.

DakotaMouse...sorry I missed this earlier. I had printed out the listing on June 5 to show a friend, and didn't really notice the 'changes' myself until June 9, when I was alerted that I was back to being the winning bidder. I'd been winning the auction for the first two days, but was holding off on a higher bid until I got some answers from the seller about specs (the reply to my emails never came and was never posted on the auction.) About the end of day three, a new bidder came on board and started to play tag with another bidder, putting me out of the running. I would have bid higher, but not until I got the specs from the seller. When the two taggers' retracted bids and I was winning again. I figured something was up with them.

Then the seller posted that he hadn't changed the listing at all, which felt 'off' to me. I checked the bidding history and saw that was the reason the tagging bidders had given for their retractions--seller changed listing. So I printed out the listing again to compare to my June 5 printout. Sure enough, the seller had changed two of the pictures, one pic from June 5 was gone completely, and one of the description paragraphs was gone, too.

It might not have meant anything--heck, I edit stuff all the time, and not just on eBay. I edit for a living. But when I edit, I tell people that I edit. There may have been a perfectly good reason for his edits, but telling people he didn't make them (when he did) and not answering buyer questions is not the way to earn 100% positive feedback.

That tear is beautiful (I really liked the porthole stained glass, spalted maple and the hand-carved table leg extension, among other things), but after the bidding changed, something about the seller just felt wrong. I can't explain it, but when I'm spending that kind of $$$, and it's too far to drive to take a quick look, I trust my gut. I don't like even the most remote queasy feeling. I think it was worth every cent of the winning bid...I just wasn't comfortable spending that much money with that seller. But all the luck in the world to the winning bidder; they got what sure looks to be a beautiful piece of workmanship.

[dakotamouse]

I don't blame you for being leary. If the guy won't take the time to answer basic questions like weight. Heck even if he didn't know you'd think he'd have the courtesy to say he didn't know. The retracted bids seem strange too.

[Creamcracker]

You're correct about it being possibly being resold by a dealer because this was up for sale and sold about 3 months ago on ebay. I had it saved for a while in my ebay account.
Philip