Auction Site Question

[Snoop Puss]

One unlikely possibility is that they'd put the starting price at the wrong price and meant it to be £24. This happened to Mr Snoop once. He won an auction in which he was the only bidder, so got the item at the starting price. The vendor actually owned up to Mr Snoop about what he'd done before backtracking and claiming he no longer had the item. The auction site took no further action, suggesting that despite its many flaws, it doesn't look at private messages.

Putting it up for £27 would, in this scenario, allow the vendor a bit of leeway for a best offer.

[SarrissUK]

I worked for a company that sells on the two biggest auction/selling sites. One is better than this one, but both tend to be very helpful when there's evidence in the messages (and they do look at that, if it's the ones based here. Not so much if based elsewhere). Ama£on are always favouring the customer, whereas fleabay are less biased in either direction.