Retracting bids
dgbaseball
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Hi all. Shouldn't ebay have an "I am an idiot and bid too quickly by accident" bid retraction reason? I understand it is a binding contract, and technically if you, as a bidder, make a mistake you should have to live with it. On the other hand, with so many dishonest sellers and scammers that are allowed to run all over ebay w/out any policing, I think it's sometimes justified for honest buyers to retract a bid after realizing it was a mistake.
This is the auction in question. Killebrew PSA
I glanced over the scan w/out noticing both are both cards are qualified OC. Admittedly, a dumb mistake, as it's obvious even with a quick glance that the cards are very OC. But given the seller doesn't mention it in the title or description, and clearly took a bad scan to hope people don't notice, I feel somewhat justified in cancelling my high bid, due to wrong amount of course, and entering a lower one, which unfortunately was not the high bid...
I think auctions like this should technically violate listing policies. If you are selling graded cards and advertise graded cards and use the graded card key words and actual grades in your description and/or title, then leaving out the qualifier is misrepresenting the auction. So what am I getting, the scan or the description? Unlike many auctions, this one doesn't say "cards in scan are actual cards you will receive etc". So I should just assume? Well of course I should, but technically, why should I? Especially when that assumption is only made in favor of the seller trying to trick potential buyers.
It just doesn't seem right that a buyer should have to make the assumption that the scan is the final word on what the auction includes if it differs from the description. This isn't like failing to mention an ungraded card is off centered. The OC qualfier is technically part of the grade of the cards. If I won and received the OC cards, couldn't I complain that I didn't receive the right cards? Maybe the seller scanned the wrong cards. If I scan a 52 Mantle and advertise a 79 Oscar Gamble, which should the buyer expect to win?
Long story short, all this ambiguity certainly warrents an "I am an idiot and bid too quickly by accident" bid retraction reason, if only because the only reason against having it would be to protect scammers and dishonest sellers misrepresenting their goods.
The end.
This is the auction in question. Killebrew PSA
I glanced over the scan w/out noticing both are both cards are qualified OC. Admittedly, a dumb mistake, as it's obvious even with a quick glance that the cards are very OC. But given the seller doesn't mention it in the title or description, and clearly took a bad scan to hope people don't notice, I feel somewhat justified in cancelling my high bid, due to wrong amount of course, and entering a lower one, which unfortunately was not the high bid...
I think auctions like this should technically violate listing policies. If you are selling graded cards and advertise graded cards and use the graded card key words and actual grades in your description and/or title, then leaving out the qualifier is misrepresenting the auction. So what am I getting, the scan or the description? Unlike many auctions, this one doesn't say "cards in scan are actual cards you will receive etc". So I should just assume? Well of course I should, but technically, why should I? Especially when that assumption is only made in favor of the seller trying to trick potential buyers.
It just doesn't seem right that a buyer should have to make the assumption that the scan is the final word on what the auction includes if it differs from the description. This isn't like failing to mention an ungraded card is off centered. The OC qualfier is technically part of the grade of the cards. If I won and received the OC cards, couldn't I complain that I didn't receive the right cards? Maybe the seller scanned the wrong cards. If I scan a 52 Mantle and advertise a 79 Oscar Gamble, which should the buyer expect to win?
Long story short, all this ambiguity certainly warrents an "I am an idiot and bid too quickly by accident" bid retraction reason, if only because the only reason against having it would be to protect scammers and dishonest sellers misrepresenting their goods.
The end.
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No disclosure and a poor scan is what I see - if there is a way to retract, I would.
mike