Irvin jacket disappearing from e-bay

[Spitfire]

How come the auction for an original Irvin jacket, suddenly ends several days before it should end?
Can the seller withdraw it?
Can somebody contact the seller and give him an offer, he can't turn down?

The price for the jacket was 10£ or $ - just dont remeber. There were no bids and the auction should go on till 3 or 4 of november.
Can anybody explain this...[huh]

 

[aswatland]

I am not sure which Irvin jacket you mean? The seller has either been made an offer or decided to pull the jacket due to lack of bids. I suspect the former though.

 

[carouselvic]

The reason I most often see posted is "item no longer available for sale".

 

[Justdog]

Dissapearing act

Yep thats what happens. Contact him and ask though. It may be relisted.

 

[Smithy]

Was it a goodie Soren?

 

[Fletch]

*COUGH!*offsite sale*COUGH!*

 

[Hawk_Eye]

I remember that guy, he bought an irvin collar strap off one of my auctions early this year for some insane amount, 350.00 $ I think. Nice jacket though, my size too.

 

[johnnyjohnny]

eeeeeeeeK-bay

yes, ebay has all sorts of little pitfalls...i could go on but then i'd have my 33rd nervous breakdown...

on something like this i always put a bid, even if it's low, to keep this sort of thing from happening...if there are no bids, no telling what will happen...

the virtue of ebay, and what they let happen there, rivaLs the virtue of heidi fLeiss...and i'm a big fan of hers...not ebay's tho

don't get me started...

johnnyANGRYjohnny

 

[Spitfire]

Was it a goodie Soren?

It was a goodie - not my size though. But for my son.
The seller/jacket was in Mexico - of all places.
(What's a Irvin Jacket doing in Mexico?)
The jacket was in perfect condition - all zippers original and intact etc.

 

[jamespibworth@n]

I saw this jacket as well, I had just logged on to make a bid only to find it had been taken off.

It did seem to be all there and in great condition.

The only thing was that the label said a size 4 but breast 47 and waist 46?? But it measured 23” under the arms.

What would have happened If I had made a bid? Could it still be retracted?

I had to call Eastman and order a 42 pat to consol myself!! Will be here in Two days

James.

 

[Edward]

As far as I am aware, the seller can pull an auction at any time up and until the first bid is made. Even then they can still pull the auction if they do so on certain limited grounds. A beautiful repro 40s suit I was bidding on a few months ago was pulled very late on. I was the leading bid at GBP30.00 with only two hours to go when the auction was pulled because the item was "damaged or not available any longer." Ho hum - draw your own conclusion as to what really happened.

 

[Fletch]

(What's a Irvin Jacket doing in Mexico?)

Old soldiers and fliers, especially the not-so-very-old who make up most of the repro market, often end up in sunny places.

 

[Spitfire]

Are you suggesting it was a repro?
If it was, I would say it was a damn fine one. They had even gone through the hazzard of adding in the vintage zippers.

 

[Edward]

Here's another thing to consider.... I was talking to Pete (Baron Kurtz) recently about his new Irvin, and he mentioned that the price of Irvins on eBay seems to have dropped considrably in recent months. Maybe sellers are holding off until the Dambusters remake comes out in the hope that increased interest then will net them a better price?

 

[H.Johnson]

As if the Dambusters wore Irvin jackets!

 

[Edward]

As if the Dambusters wore Irvin jackets!

Why let historical accuracy get in the way of popular perception? William Wallace never wore a kilt, or wode, either, but.... Yay Hollywood!

 

[Fletch]

With automated sniping so widespread, the next logical step is ending an auction privately with the seller, making the item "disappear." Call it supersniping.

eBay has warnings and such up, but it's probably nothing they, or other bidders, can defend against, and it makes sense for the seller if he's willing to take a chance. A nuclear option, if you will.

Someone supersniped a pair of swell looking brown highboots I had my eyes on, with like 6 days to run.

This also used to happen to A-1 jackets a lot.

 

[Justdog]

Bid

I saw this jacket as well, I had just logged on to make a bid only to find it had been taken off.

It did seem to be all there and in great condition.

The only thing was that the label said a size 4 but breast 47 and waist 46?? But it measured 23” under the arms.

What would have happened If I had made a bid? Could it still be retracted?

I had to call Eastman and order a 42 pat to consol myself!! Will be here in Two days

James.

Under certain circumstances and depending on the time frame it could still be cancelled for listing error item no longer available excuses

 

[Edward]

With automated sniping so widespread, the next logical step is ending an auction privately with the seller, making the item "disappear." Call it supersniping.

eBay has warnings and such up, but it's probably nothing they, or other bidders, can defend against, and it makes sense for the seller if he's willing to take a chance. A nuclear option, if you will.

Someone supersniped a pair of swell looking brown highboots I had my eyes on, with like 6 days to run.

This also used to happen to A-1 jackets a lot.

Recently I had a few enquiries as to what my "buy it now" would be on some items where I hadn't listed one - i.e. the would-be buyer was obviously asking me in a tinly-veiled way what I would take to end the auction and sell privately to them. I always politely decline these offers, but I think that with eBay's new pricing structure (taking a percentage of your final sale price, where they used only to charge for insertion) we'll see an awful lot more of this sort of thing happening, especially with high value items.

 

[BellyTank]

...eBay's new pricing structure (taking a percentage of your final sale price, where they used only to charge for insertion) we'll see an awful lot more of this sort of thing happening, especially with high value items.

Didn't they always take a percentage of the sale price..?


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