Originally Posted by Dr.Deltron

Here's the deal...with 6 minutes to go, the rims were 2 bids at $79. A last minute bidding war ensued between yours truly and "some other guy". I quit with a final bid of $151.92. I lost. Selling price; $154.XX

Here's the catch...within 30 minutes of the auction ending, I get a 2nd chance offer for my bid of $151.92.

Immediately, my gut told me this was a scam. My feeling is that the seller, working in cahoots with another entity, had their buddy do the bid war thing with me. This drove my bidding way up. Then the "other" bidder couldn't pay (preplanned), so I get the 2nd chance offer.

I realized that if I were selling something downstairs, my wife could be upstairs, engaged in the bid war.
She wins but "can't pay", so the 2nd highest bidder gets the "offer". To basically pay more than they wanted to. And I get top dollar with out having to pay to relist.

I know, the seller could have multiple items and just wants to unload them all, again without having to relist the item.

I did reply with what I thought would be a fair price for the rims, just in case.

But I'm dubious about the overall results thus far.

Your thoughts please...

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