Second Chance Offers

So, I get when an unsold item is eligible for second chance offers on ebay. That makes sense.

But why is an item I sold, have been paid for, and has shipped is still eligible for a second chance offer?

In case you have a duplicate item.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh......... See that makes too much sense for me to figure out on my own.

With this particular item, thank goodness I don't have a duplicate. Only took like a year to sell.

I've used the 2nd chance offer many times as a seller with pretty good success.

I think many ebay buyers really don't get second chance..........perhaps thinking it is a fraud or something. I'd guess I get maybe about 1/3 take up on second chance.

Hi,
If I could just add to what CanadaStamp said, in a poll undertaken by ebay marketing/survey department it was 71% in favour of people believing it was a fraudulent message, I have once fell for a similar 'phishing' attempt, a 'phishing' attempt is when a criminal group/'gang' buy your email address in bulk, normally 1 million plus email addresses at once for money, roughly £30,000 per 1 million email addresses,and then they replicate 'copy' Ebays second chance offer email,then they send everyone the same Fraudulent ebay message and hope to get reply's, and hoping you click on there links, which will look genuine but will redirect you to there duplicate Mirror site (made to look the spitting double of Ebays real site, making you believe you are getting the real deal, once you sign into the fake ebay page your cridental's have been stolen and your computer will more than likely have a key logger attached, a 'key logger' will copy keystroke for keystroke what you type and then send it remotely to the criminals email address,
The best way to actually check if it genuine is to open up a new internet page, sign directly into ebay its self and look to see if you have one there, if not then do not open the email or click on any of the links given,
Also another way which is normally a tell tale give away is to see who is it addressed to, does it say Dear Customer? or Dear your email address? ebay will always use your Name or Username directly used for ebay, E.G= Dear JoeBloggs, NOT E.G= Dear Customer. As the criminal's cannot afford to send you all a personal message, they just put Dear Customer to hit a higher majority, E.G= if they typed Dear JoeBloggs, not many people would click the link as they know they are not called JoeBloggs.
Sorry this message is long but I just thought to share my knowledge with you all so hopefully you can all learn from my one mistake as it was such a pain to sort out.
Turbo