Another ebay question...

[bfeather]

i'm sure this is a very easy question to answer but what is this "second chance offer" mean??? i'm new to selling things on ebay but if someone could tell what this feature is and when is the best time to use it. thank you for any information that you can give me.

brian f-

[skyride39]

seller uses this when the winner of the auction can't pay somehow (for example the winner doesn't want to pay by paypal and wants to send a money order but the seller only wants to accept paypal as payment) so you offer to sell the item to the runner up buyer of the auction, a 'second chance' to the runner up to buy the item.

[30ranfordfan]

When you're selling - you could give a 2nd chance offer to one (or more) of the losing bidders.

Two times when this is applicable: You have more than one copy of the item, or the winner didn't pay.


If you're selling a card, and I bid $10 on it...... someone else outbids me, and wins it for $10.50......... you've got two, think $10 is a good sell price, so you offer it to me at my max bid.

[bfeather]

got it and thanks for the helpful information guys. its a pretty nice card and the buyer got a good price for it...(malkin bap rc) so i think that i'm going to do this and see what happens. thanks again everyone for the info.

brian f-

[jaywheel]

If you are the buyer, make sure you look at the bidding history before accepting a second chance offer, or else you could end up buying from a shill seller. Shill bidding to win the auction and sending a second chance offer to the runner up if the $ is right.