~UPDATED ON 10 APR~
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Pardon my outburst of profanity *lol* I don't really swear in real (or virtual) life but this incident somehow hits me right between the eyes. But I'm perfectly fine now :)
I'm in the foulest mood right now. I woke up this morning at 4.00am just to bid for a 1980 lefty Gibson Les Paul Custom with confidence that I'd win it and indeed I would've won it if not for restriction placed by the seller to block all international bidders!!!! URGH!! I still can't believe it. I keyed in the amount of US$1875 just 15 seconds before the bidding end and Ebay showed me a page where I need to get permisson from the seller to bid!!!!! WTH!!!! 13 seconds to go and all I could do was to stare at my monitor with disbelief and disgust.
And the highest bidder won with a bid of US$1251.
Fuck. I should've known better than to take such risks. But I had everything planned!! It was simple: bid last minute to secure the deal, immediately pay the seller via Paypal and specify the US address given from the Vpost service. There's no way the seller would refuse me once he/she gets the payment and seeing that the shipping location is in US.
For a brief moment, I had my doubt whether the seller could actually block international bidders from bidding. So I read up the Ebay rules and information (and found out they could) but gathered that there isn't any sign of that in the listing other than the "We do not ship international" line (they didn't specify 'No international bidders what!!). Still in doubt, I tried to place a bid and even though ebay did prompt that the seller might not ship international, it had the 'CONFIRM BID' button at the bottom...so, I thought it'd still go through and waited for the right moment to place the bid.
...And boy I was darn wrong. It did block me AFTER I click on the 'CONFRIM BID' button during the nth second.
Geez. Initially...in the very beginning, I wanted to email the seller whether I could bid for the item, but assuming that such sellers would usually brush international bidders off (on the stereotype that we're capable of frauds, scams, etc), I didn't do that...and decided to go ahead with the bidding instead.
Wrong move. A BIG mistake.
I almost wanted to smash my monitor. I threw myself back to my bed and I swore it almost caught fire from my fury. Was kept awake for a long while from being fuming mad. Then I had some crappy dream and before long, I had to drag myself up for work.
The sulk on my face probably won't wear off anytime soon.
