by Ric Gandy » Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:07 am
Everyone must realize by now that there are a lot of games that get played on eBay in the coin op section on a regular basis. IF you choose to believe the seller's explanation, the previous high bidder "made a mistake" and did not complete the transaction. I guess not. $2,326.99 is pretty strong for an unrestored Castle Front the "works great", but "does not pay on a winner". If you study the bidding history, WWatcher had put in an earlier bid of $1,000.00. He got outbid with what was probably the last legitimate bid of $1,259.99. APPARENTLY, WWatcher rebid and MAY have made the not so hard to make mistake of hitting the comma key instead of the period key and eBay picked up the new bid as $130,000.00 or whatever it does. eBay has been asked to correct this, but they could care less. So it is possible that WWatcher could have tried to bid $1,300.00 or something like that, but typed in $1,300,00 and eBay picked it up as a much higher number. It has happened to me when I was in a hurry and wasn't paying attention, but as soon as I realized what I did, I retracted my bid and rebid the correct amount. That is all well and good. But how do you explain Sudsshaker's (5) three bids of $2,200.00, #2,251.99, and $2,301.99? Maybe Sudsshaker had been shaking a few too many suds when he made that bid. Maybe the seller did not want to violate any of eBay's asinine rules by offering this machine to Sudsshaker for the amount of his last bid. Who knows? Who cares? The simple fact of the matter is that the machine has been relisted. It will be interesting to see if either WWatcher or Sudsshaker show up this time around.