atlas_drums

Yesterday I won an ebay auction for a Corvette at just around KBB and Edmunds market value. Today I got a call from the seller telling me that there was a problem with the auction, that the reserve was originally set about $15K more than what the auction ended at, and some glitch with a bidder retracting his bid caused the reserve to change or go away. The lady on the phone was pleasant older woman, and I think that it was an error of some sort more than an effort to mislead. The seller has 100% feedback on ebay and their website shows plenty of cars available for sale, but I believe it is more of a mom/pop operation than a bid dealership.

I know that my options to force the sale are limited because ebay Motors deals are non-binding. I'm curious if any of you have had any experience with a situation like this, and what your advice is.

Vel-Yellowc6

Look for another car. Same thing happened to another guy a couple weeks ago. Ebays car auctions are more like a name your price classified ads from what I've seen

RicK T

Run! Find something else.

bugsas99

what is your location???? did you search through autotrader and cars.com???

CaryBob

They don't want to sell you the car at the bid price. Telling you that they want a minimum of another $15,000 is all you need to know. Unless you want to pay that much, it's simple. Look elsewhere.

ryker

Just advise the "seller" that your offer stands at the final bid price. If the sale can't be completed then your offer stands until you find something else?

15k more than bid price (market value) tells me that this isn't a car person or a car dealer. Maybe the original owner who knows how much they paid and doesn't want to loose so much.

2toys

Sounds like a "bait and Switch" operation, except this one is a "bait and bump". I'd report the transaction to Ebay then move on to an honest seller.

scootertrash19

TLS_Addict

Some people have won when something like this happens.

brettbolt

I think the seller deserves negative feedback -- that will warn others. After that, it seems to be the consensus here, look elsewhere.

I have been both a car buyer and a car seller on eBay, and they were the two worst car transactions of my life.

VET4LES

I'd move on. It's not worth the hassle.

raysk

I would definitely leave negative feedback. if this was a one time mistake (unlikely) then one bad feedback for someone who's 100% is not a big deal, but if this is some sort of scheme, it will be good to begin to have it documented.

haljensen

Reserve was $15,000 ABOVE KBB?! Sounds like a scam to me. Report it to EBay, the failure to supply the car at the winning bid price is a violation of their rules. And do a negative feedback.

Dif

Same thing already happened to someone else and it was all over the internet.
EBay Auto auctions are NON BINDING, it says so in the EBay policy.
Run Away .. chalk it up to lesson learned and find another car.
There is way too many other cars to be had

Random84

Plenty of cars in the parking lot. Check AutoTrader.com - I've had success there and the search functions are actually useful (unlike Yahoo! Auto, Cars.com, and others).

boraxman

Let it go, many more out there.

Jimsan

Look elsewhere---

mcandrew67

post the link to the ebay auction so we can see the car and the winning price to give you an accurate valuation. If they want $15K more thats ludicrous, I would leave negative feedback on them and look elsewhere. would like to see the auction though. Post link

phileaglesfan

Unfortunately sellers do it all the time with nothing from Ebay. I believe a lot just use it to see what people would offer for their car. You will not be able to back out of a car deal on ebay more than 3 times if you are a buyer.

I would post neutral feed back just to warn people that this seller does retract bids but not to hurt their feed back rating too much.

Edmunds is usually a pretty fair price so if it is close to that there is NO WAY he would get $15k above that price. Post the link and I'm sure you'll have a bunch of people here comment about the price.

I would think that if someone was selling something so expensive they would research how to sell it first or have someone that is familiar with Ebay help them out.

Boba Fett

dont walk, RUN