An Easy Way to Lose Money Big Time on eBay!
 
Here’s something that happened to me last week which you definitely don’t want to copy!
 
It concerned a postcard of Easington Colliery, just a few miles up the road from where I live, and it was dated 1904.  In years of buying, selling and collecting postcards I’d never seen this view before.  The starting price was £4.99 so I placed a bid and waited.

Seconds later ‘it’ arrived, the message saying I’d been outbid.  So I bid £9.99, soon afterwards another message arrived saying someone had outbid me, almost in seconds.

That sort of thing usually means someone else has placed a maximum bid on the item concerned and subsequent bidders will have their bids rejected until they exceed that other person’s maximum.  Not a chance of that happening, I thought, I really wanted this card, so I bid £40 and I was in the lead.  Given I often forget to check later on items I really want to buy, I set my maximum bid at £100 and forgot about it.
 
A few days later the unimaginable happened, the postcard had sold, TO SOMEONE ELSE!
 
I was shocked, upset, wondering when, if ever, I’d see that postcard again.  It actually appeared again just two days later, in an envelope addressed to me!!!!  Why and How?  Well it turns out the other bidder was my husband, bidding from another of my eBay accounts which I never ever use!!! 
 
Another fine example of poor communication and failure to keep a close eye on all my eBay accounts!
 
Which brings me to today’s money making, money saving tip: check those other accounts every few days or so, not just to avoid problems such as I encountered, but also to check for warnings from eBay which you must respond to quickly, requests for outstanding fees which if you ignore could get you expelled from eBay, not forgetting people bidding against you who are actually sitting just inches away!