Ebay and bid retractions?

cardfan07

How many bid retractions can you stack up in a 6 month time period before there is some negative consequence to your account? I had someone retract a bid (presumably after I told them I wouldn't end the auction early) and it turns out they've retracted 11 bids in the last 6 months! Sorry, you don't mistype a bid 11 times.
Any ideas?

ChrisStufflestreet

<< <i>How many bid retractions can you stack up in a 6 month time period before there is some negative consequence to your account? I had someone retract a bid (presumably after I told them I wouldn't end the auction early) and it turns out they've retracted 11 bids in the last 6 months! Sorry, you don't mistype a bid 11 times.
Any ideas? >>



Look at it this way...if this prospective buyer retracts his bid, maybe it's a good thing. You don't have to bother with him if he doesn't pay you.

Now, if he's retracting a bid simply because he found out what the high bid was on your auction and re-bidding a lower amount, then I'd be suspicious.

My two cents.

gameusedhoop

I guess there is no limit to retractions. This ebayer Retraction Man has pulled 51 bids in in 35 days on ebay. He pulled an opening bid on my item, couldn't possibly screw up a minimum bid. He was reported to ebay when he had retractions numbering in the 20s. he has now doubled that total in the last 2+ weeks and still nothing has happened. Needless to say he is on my blocked bidder list.

Rainman

i hadn't given this much thought since i usually don't have people retract bids. however, i recently had someone do so w/roughly 13 hours left in the auction. they used the 'entered wrong bid amount' excuse and of course didn't re-enter a new/correct bid amount. turns out the person has had 40 bid retractions in the past 6 months. crazy.

iamthegreatcornholio

If you do report it, I believe they will get "NARU'ed" - "Not a registered user". There was this one loser who did it 50+ times in a few months and someone reported him and he got NARU'ed. If anyone enters "entered wrong bid amount" they must immediately enter the correct amount. Sellers should report the violations because they're the ones getting screwed.

Brian

Snowball

They can retract before 12 hours of auctions end and if less than 12 hours, within 1 hour of the placed bid.

I'd rather see a retraction than a buyer who doesn't pay. I don't like bidders emailing to ask me to cancel their bids 3 or 4 hours before it ends.

Just had one non paying buyer recently. Bidded 2x so nobody could out bid him (I guess). I sent the buyer an invoice and never paid. after 10 days I sent a reminder and file report to ebay still no response. I sent an email same day I got a reply and told me he never bidded on the auction. I really got pissed because there are legit buyers who's been buying those kind of cards from me and he outbidded them and double up his bid. I saw that he recently got a neg from a seller and he responded that he never got an email and neg that seller. I wanted to neg this guy but this new ebay ID I have (where I sell cheap cards) has less than 100 FBs and will drive buyers away if they see 96 or 97 rating of a seller. This buyer has only 18 FBs and I'm sure will be NARU'd anytime soon.

One thing I've notice about bid retractions, it still counts even if the bidder immediately places a bid again (will not be taken out of the record).

downgoesfrazier

"Girlmaverick" or Andrew Deally retracts at an alarming rate. I simply think retractions are garbage. BTW, eBay does absolutely nothing to anyone when it is reported.

dgf

highend

as long as you pay ebay will let you play. very sad but true.

envoy98

I've seen a lot of them. Sometimes I think it's people wanting to feel like they can "play" with the big boys thinking they'll be outbid anyway..ie someone bidding 10,000 on something they are sure the reserve is 20k, or they are shill accounts. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons, but most times it's buyers(bidders) remorse or the oops, my wife will kill me if I actually win that...

Seems there are a lot of shill accounts that use this trick. I'm still trying to figure out what I think was a shill last night. Very odd.

Anyway, this almost peeves me more than the sellers who end auctions 3 seconds before they end using the "Item no longer available for sale" excuse. Happened to me last night on 2 auctions. Thinking I won a 76 Payton rc for a good price I went to check my Items Won...hmm. not there, How could I have been outbid..check the Items I didn't win ... hmm. not htere either... check the sellers account "selling/sold last 30 days" oh look, 0 bids, item no longer available for sale. Stars 1/1/04 10:00:00 am end 1/8/04 9:59:57 am. Now that p!$$e$ me off!

If you don't want to sell it to the high bidder set a reserve or raise your opening bid amount.