Sure hope it was someone on here...12.57am just watched 3 FL6's (one lot) go through ebay (poorly listed) and went for £41 arhhhh! and I didn't bid.. Martin
Rules of course say that you can't give members a heads up, I can understand that, we all like a bargain. But it would be nice to think a CPL member landed up with them... it was a UK ebay sale. Martin
You can give us a link now they’ve ended. They’ve probably been bought by some hip interior designer that’ll stick one of those fancy light bulbs in them, then list them back on eBay for about 500 quid each.
I thought this was a local desease here but weems to get international. Like painting everything white and call it brocante.
@Matthew92 thats sad and I hate when a saw a guy his listings on Etsy neutering all lanterns he get and installing light bulbs and a cord through the fount on mostly pristine to fair lanterns and people paying up to $200+ and he is selling them like meth
Verry good possible. In fact brocante is french for second hand (as far as I know) but it is tranformed into a kind of designer, sales act. For some reason painting stuff white is part of it. That is the other strange part. People that pay whay over the actual value.
OK...well I just found out a pal of mine bought them (I didn't recognise his ebay name as he was using his wife's account) I couldn't be happier for him as he is a Lampie with no intention of neutering the big fella's. However, he has just informed me that the seller has cancelled the sale, even though he has been paid, saying that they didn't reach the reserve (even though he hadn't used one in the advert) It appears that my friend is powerless to do anything about the sellers change of heart. Like I said in the original post, they were advertised very poorly and were finished at a ridiculous time of night! what did he expect!!!! The sellers is now quoting a value of £200 plus for each lamp to my mate! he is not a happy bunny. Martin
Well, I thought when you 'won' an auction on eBay, that represented a legally binding contract between the two parties. Needs reporting to eBay, I'd have thought, on the grounds that the vendor has not fulfilled his obligation to the buyer...
Or you just don’t try to take advantage of an honest mistake/incompetence and take the karma that goes with it! No deal is a good deal if both parties aren’t happy with it.
I should imagine the seller has suddenly realised the potential value and so cancelled the sale. I think its getting harder to get a bargain on ebay as people are realising potential value of their lamps and there are lots of collectors out there.
Not if it means the vendor is unhappy with the deal. All my bargains have been made with both parties happy. I wouldn’t want to use the small print to force someone to do something they didn’t want to just because they’d made a mistake. It seems a bit mean to me; I think most of us would like to think that if we made a several hundred pound error that maybe others would let us off. But maybe that’s just me!
Being honest is one, making a mistake is 2, Not doing you homework BEFORE putting it in auction is neither one. Not being happy with the money offered and agreed on and wanting more is called greedy. Not an mistake, small print or whatever. A Tilley FL6 is not worth 200 UK pounds. Unless the value has dropped dramatically against the euro...
Well it started out that my mate Lee was just looking for one, the three was a bonus but now he has none. He isn't pursuing this as I guess he doesn't want to force the issue but I think he is owed an apology at least for being messed about. I'm sure another one, at a reasonable price will materialise sometime soon. Martin
