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UK ebay seller

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Disnerd1989

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Can anyone who has experience with UK ebay sellers please contact me

I bid on a pin last week, thinking I would end up in a bidding war over it. My first bid won the auction and it seems way to good to be true.

It's a pin that usually sells for €30 plus and I just won the auction for £7.99. It doesn't seem right :anxious:

The seller has 100% positive feedback but I'm still a bit worried it could be fake. :|

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this seller
 
PM me the name and I'll see if I bought from them, I buy from UK sellers regularly. Sometimes auctions in Europe don't go high because the majority of pin buyers are still foreign and they don't like the high shipping costs from Europe, so it could be legit.
 
I would say it is genuine I am a UK seller and have sold a few pins through eBay, I've searched sold listings before I list my item and it has shown a high recent sale price but when I have listed mine it has maybe gone for half of that even less.
 
Yeah, not all auctions sell and certainly not all European auctions. I follow a few UK sellers and their auctions always get relisted because no one bids, while they do have some good pins. Sometimes buyers don't find all the listed auctions, unless you browse through all the pages of Ebay when you search and not everyone does that.
 
It happens. I've purchased pin for 1/4 for what they usually go for. Sometimes people just aren't on the ball. I imagine that European sellers since they're so many hours ahead of us that they're auctions end at times that are not convenient to American's and then people whose schedules are more open can swoop in and get a good deal. I wouldn't worry about it if they have a decent amount of feedback and it's at 100%
 
You could have just lucked out. I've gotten a few pins for dirt cheap with auction-style listings.
Example would be my Ursula DSF pins (PD41900, PD41944) with the Ursula Marquee (PD41777) as a lot for like $30 total. All look great, I just lucked out!
 
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What would make you think it is fake in the first place? because there was no bidding war? Maybe someone else didn't want that pin at that moment? Or, as others have said, the high shipping costs from UK to somewhere international, turned other bidders away.
 
starry_solo said:
What would make you think it is fake in the first place? because there was no bidding war? Maybe someone else didn't want that pin at that moment? Or, as others have said, the high shipping costs from UK to somewhere international, turned other bidders away.
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Yeah just the fact that nobody else bid. I have the same pin in my collection (so at least I will have something to compare it to when it arrives) and it is the pin I get the most compliments and offers on, so I decided to get a second as a trader.

There are no known scrapers of the pins though, so it seems like I just got lucky :)
 
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