Excerpts from PM, snipped bits with "...":
Your topic was locked while I was attempting to respond to your "auction interference" thread.
I have quoted what I intended to post below in an effort to give you friendly advice. Feel free to ignore it if you so choose.
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In regards to your questions, your "round two" bidder reneged on his bid, so I would advise that you open a scam accusation and/or leave him a negative rating.
The negative rating was already left right away... the scam accusation I guess I could do too, if it didn't look like
they had abandoned their account from April 24 (13 days after auction end), 2017 until now. Even if they reactivate, my negrating with risked
BTC & uneditable reference URL will be more evergreen than a Scam Accusation that is bumped down the listings.
... In order to prevent this from happening in the future, you can require users who do not meet some criteria to prepay (a portion of) their bid prior to you accepting their bid. If you require that only a portion of user's bid to be prepaid, you can stipulate that they will lose their "deposit" if they do not pay their balance within "x" amount of time.
No matter my years of built-up trust ratings, that sounds like a ticket to ratings suicide.
In regards to your "round three" bidder, no one had bid after ~a month, and he made an offer below your starting bid. You have the option to either reject his bid, or decide that you are willing to accept an amount below your starting bid. His offer was clearly $1 and not 1BTC, so if you wanted to accept his bid, he owes you $1. It looks like he sent you~$1 in BTC, so if you are not going to accept his bid, then I would suggest that you refund him (while deducting the tx fee from the amount you send him).
My acceptance of
BTC1 as a valid bid & necessarily implicit rejection of the clearly invalid bid of $1 should have been obvious at some point over the
aforementioned 7 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes and 48 seconds of non-"clarification" from BitWhale. And as BitWhale said,
"Please accept my $1 donation and buy yourself a happy meal." Which
costs well over $1. End of that story.
As a side note, if the items you have listed for sale are not selling, it will probably not hurt anything to allow for some friendly conversation in your sales threads -- doing so will allow for free bumps for you.
Too frustrating to have to answer questions from sig spammers already answered in my OPs, and say no, no, no, no, when asked/demanded to reconsider the terms of sale I set to be law-abiding, such as only shipping within the US.
