Originally Posted by
Dawes-man
An item I bid on reached £139, while my maximum bid was £137.
A few days later, the seller contacted me to tell me that the highest bidder wasn't paying so he might offer it to me. I wrote back, asking how it would work and pointing out that if the non-paying highest bidder hadn't bid, I would have got the item for £103, £2 more than the next highest bidder.
Is that allowed? It certainly doesn't seem ethical to me...
Thats happened to me alot and I NEVER take the second chance unless its for what I would have paid if the high bidder never bid. In this instance it would be your price fo 103GBP.
On occasion the seller will have a more than 1 item that gets offered up as a 'second chance' but that's not the case here.
Hold your ground.