Every Buyer has zero feedback
http://tinyurl.com/jcrmxg7
0 feeback on both, one a new user, smacks of shill-bidding to me...
Hmmm....if they're doing "their own" bidding to "bid it up", don't they realize that they'll still have to pay the ebay fee when it "sells"? I guess it's wishful thinking that someone else will bid high on it.
Quote from: JimH on January 10, 2017, 06:39:16 PMdon't they realize that they'll still have to pay the ebay fee when it "sells"?
Worse still, they could lose their ebay account if reported and ebay confirms it to be themselves or friends/family doing the shill bidding...
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/seller-shill-bidding.html
And I just thought it was two newbies who wanted a phone...bad.
Well, it SOLD for $305! To the guy with the ZERO Feedback :)
Terry
I bet you 1x Isle of Man 50p coin that it's relisted... ;D
(And I'm only betting that coin cos the damned self-service tills at Tesco won't accept it!!)
I wonder if anyone reported that auction to eBay? I guess there is no way of knowing either way. Highly suspicious with two (0) feedback buyers going at it. Certainly walks like a duck, . . .
Anyone think 6***m ( 0 ) will get feedback for this purchase?
Red ITT Modular 554 with plastic switch hook and ringer adjustment?
Aren't these still being produced by Cortelco?
Quote from: finkmac on January 11, 2017, 09:36:07 AM
Red ITT Modular 554 with plastic switch hook and ringer adjustment?
Aren't these still being produced by Cortelco?
They are showing that it has been discontinued.
http://cortelco.com/product?file=8900
http://cortelco.com/product?file=3554-20M
http://cortelco.com/categories.html?file=legacy
Definitely looks suspicious to me.
I checked the Cortelco website a couple years ago, and it was listed as still being built. I checked a year later, and it was discontinued.
Quote from: twocvbloke on January 11, 2017, 05:18:56 AM
I bet you 1x Isle of Man 50p coin that it's relisted... ;D
(And I'm only betting that coin cos the damned self-service tills at Tesco won't accept it!!)
Let me see if I have one first before I bet.
(It is entirely possible, I've been there twice in the 70's and I still have a box of left over coins from various travels around the world. Many of them now only worth their scrap metal value.)
Terry
It could be someone with too much money paying way too much for a phone. Zero feedback does indicate a newbie!
Quote from: andre_janew on January 11, 2017, 12:53:41 PM
It could be someone with too much money paying way too much for a phone. Zero feedback does indicate a newbie!
I think they are called "millennials" Lots of them up and coming of age to spend the money.
That image needs a "Selfie Stick" in it!
Terry
Quote from: AE_Collector on January 11, 2017, 03:46:58 PM
That image needs a "Selfie Stick" in it!
Terry
Being a baby boomer, I would have to get a millennial to show me what a "Selfie Stick" is. LOL
Autonut, I never mentioned them by name. I did, however, suspect it wasn't baby boomers. Now I wounder if millennials would pay that much for one of my phones . . . .
Quote from: andre_janew on January 11, 2017, 04:49:53 PM
Autonut, I never mentioned them by name. I did, however, suspect it wasn't baby boomers. Now I wounder if millennials would pay that much for one of my phones . . . .
You could always try. I'm sure your phones are much nicer than that one! Maybe us Baby Boomers could get into a bidding war for one of your phones. Then a 0 feedback millennial could come in and snipe us. ;)
Being someone who seems to be in that "millennial" category but absolutely denies it, I still call those "selfie sticks" by their proper name, Monopods, 'cos they're like a tripod, but with one leg... ;D
About three years ago we finally made it back to Hawaii and Wakiki beach after many years. Promptly was run into (literally) by someone walking on the beach taking videos of himself with phone and selfi stick. Figured I was probably had less chance of being hit by a driver on his phone while I crossed the street!
Terry
Quote from: AE_Collector on January 11, 2017, 12:54:36 AM
Well, it SOLD for $305! To the guy with the ZERO Feedback :)
Terry
Don't be surprised if the "winner" will "forget" to pay. Buyer non-payment wipes out ebay fees and gets a relisting. I suspected that this happened when I lost an auction by $1. Same item was re-listed a week later. The seller probably didn't get his price but did not want to run a Reserve.
Marie....welcome back! Always good to hear from you, I thought I saw a ringer box from you on eBay this week......good to have you back....Doug
Well, if anything, that "suspicious" auction shook a real AT&T phone
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RED-EMERGENCY-WALL-MOUNT-ROTARY-AT-T-TELEPHONE-NO-DIAL-BATMAN-INSPIRED-PHONE/132061500660
free from storage. Starting at $50 with no reserve and even though the red lamp has not been installed, it looks like a better phone. Should be interesting to watch this auction to see if the loser bidder of the ITT phone get into this auction by placing a bid, or two . . . ;)
Description of the AT&T phone is very similar to the high selling ITT, my thought on the first shaking the second loose.
Quote from: Doug Rose on January 12, 2017, 05:52:29 PM
Marie....welcome back! Always good to hear from you, I thought I saw a ringer box from you on eBay this week......good to have you back....Doug
Thanks - it's mine but the market for these gets smaller as more people move to VOIP services that don't support pulse dialing and/or mechanical ringers. (Only enthusiasts like ourselves will bother installing a ringing voltage booster.) And some have literally cut the cord by entirely removing their land lines.
Ah, high sale price on the questionable sale and yet another one hits eBay. The seller of the AT&T "Emergency" phone above also has an ITT phone but thinks it's worth more than the AT&T so started it at $99 with a BIN of $299. Same listing title as the "questionable" phone listing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-RED-Wall-Mount-Rotary-ITT-Telephone-No-Dial-Batman-Inspired-Phone-/291999883294
Quote from: Doug Rose on January 10, 2017, 06:01:22 PM
Every Buyer has zero feedback
http://tinyurl.com/jcrmxg7
Update: It's been 11 days since this sold and neither the seller nor the buyer have sent/received feedback. Buyer feedback is still "0" and seller has not received feedback from the buyer for the phone.
Yes, people don't leave feed back either way on sales so just saying, did it ship?
The one in Reply #25 hasn't sold because nobody put a bid on it. It didn't get bid on because a similar phone with a dial has a $70 price on it.