22-08-2014, 12:58 AM
Hello everyone! Help needed!
So a friend has put his girlfriends car up for sale on eBay, times are hard and they are expecting a baby around Xmas time and wanted to free up some cash.
Anyway, up it goes on eBay and got very little interest, a few bids around £1000 but nothing much. Seeing the auction time getting close, and being the good Samaritan that I am I decided to bid up the car to get things going. I didn't tell the couple since I didn't want to interfere. At first I was successful, it got more interest, unfortunately everyone stopped at around £2000 or something. I bid to £2400 and hoped someone would bid £2500. Amazingly someone did, and stupidly I refreshed my phone or something, as I then managed to bid £2550.... No one else bid and I won the auction.
They are both really happy that they have sold the car, and are going to be gutted/f*cking angry when they find out it was me, and that I wont be buying it. So what should I do? How do I sort this out!?
My plan was to go round, apologise and offer to re advertise the car for them.
Input appreciated!
So a friend has put his girlfriends car up for sale on eBay, times are hard and they are expecting a baby around Xmas time and wanted to free up some cash.
Anyway, up it goes on eBay and got very little interest, a few bids around £1000 but nothing much. Seeing the auction time getting close, and being the good Samaritan that I am I decided to bid up the car to get things going. I didn't tell the couple since I didn't want to interfere. At first I was successful, it got more interest, unfortunately everyone stopped at around £2000 or something. I bid to £2400 and hoped someone would bid £2500. Amazingly someone did, and stupidly I refreshed my phone or something, as I then managed to bid £2550.... No one else bid and I won the auction.
They are both really happy that they have sold the car, and are going to be gutted/f*cking angry when they find out it was me, and that I wont be buying it. So what should I do? How do I sort this out!?
My plan was to go round, apologise and offer to re advertise the car for them.
Input appreciated!
