Do you block bidders after they retract a bid on your auction?

zef204

I just had one and I looked up he guys history and he has 8 retractions in the last 6 months. I blocked him. I think 8 is WAY too many "mistakes" to have made when bidding. I think this guy just tries to see what he would need to bid to out bid the next guy and if its too high, he'll retract it.

What are your thoughts?

lawnmowerman

I wouldnt block him. He did it because he is interested. It would be another bid on your auction obviously raising the price even more.

matt

zef204

<< <i>I just had one and I looked up he guys history and he has 8 retractions in the last 6 months. I blocked him. I think 8 is WAY too many "mistakes" to have made when bidding. I think this guy just tries to see what he would need to bid to out bid the next guy and if its too high, he'll retract it.

What are your thoughts? >>

I don't know if I was clear in my original message. He retracted his bid on my item first, then I blocked him.

storm888

He did it to see the numbers.

BUT, I would not block him until AFTER the auction is completed.
He might jump in, and you might score higher because of it.

If he stays out, I would block him. If, in the future, he asks to
bid, I would unblock him.

All that may not set well with the "fair-play" concepts, but there
is no point in punishing yourself for someone else's bad acts.

storm

lostdart58

I have certainly retracted bids before........not because I made a mistake, per se.........................sometimes an alcohol induced bid......sometimes because I won the same card in another auction...................Does this make me unworthy and a bad ebayer??

( I have had as many as 8 bid retraction in 6 months...right now I have 3)

Thank God .......zef hasn't been selling too many 72 Topps baseball......cause I could be on his shnit list

lawnmowerman

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<< <i>I just had one and I looked up he guys history and he has 8 retractions in the last 6 months. I blocked him. I think 8 is WAY too many "mistakes" to have made when bidding. I think this guy just tries to see what he would need to bid to out bid the next guy and if its too high, he'll retract it.

What are your thoughts? >>

I don't know if I was clear in my original message. He retracted his bid on my item first, then I blocked him. >>

Sorry, I didnt see that you blocked him already. Anyway, he probably has a ebay id just to do things like retract bids. Then he will bid with his real id later on after he knows what to bid. I would unblock him just in case

zef204

<< <i>I have certainly retracted bids before........not because I made a mistake, per se.........................sometimes an alcohol induced bid......sometimes because I won the same card in another auction...................Does this make me unworthy and a bad ebayer??

( I have had as many as 8 bid retraction in 6 months...right now I have 3)

Thank God .......zef hasn't been selling too many 72 Topps baseball......cause I could be on his shnit list >>


If the guy e-mailed me a reason I think I may have a different perspective.

jradke4

I would block him. I have bid ond things that I didnt regretted after submitting the bid, but whats done is done.

grote15

I agree with blocking him. Why even let a guy with 8 bid retractions over the last 6 months to win one of your auctions. He's a headache waiting to happen. Better to avoid dealing with him altogether. Just my .02.

storm888

I have had as many as 3 in 6-months. My keyboard
was sticking on the zero. The guy was really mean to
me on one of them; $1500.01 for a $15.00 item. I
guess he thought he had hit a homerun, for a moment.

The risk to a seller of having a habitual error-maker is
that if they bid and wait until the last-permitted
retraction minute, other buyers may have stopped
by in the interim, seen the high bid and moved on.
The seller is then stuck with a pre-error high-bid, and
some of his potential bidders have already moved on.

It is no big deal to make a mistaken entry, but I do
know that many folks do it just to gather info on the
reserve and/or other numbers.


storm

Griffins

I had a guy bid high to see what my reserve was and then retract. I blocked him in a heartbeat.

lostdart58

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If the guy e-mailed me a reason I think I may have a different perspective. >>





....expect to start receiving email that say just..................OOOOPPPPSS...drunk again!!

MorrellMan

I agree with Anthony. Anybody plays games with my auctions, they only do it once.

Robeson

I seem to remember a board member that had 24 bid retractions in the previous 6 months. I can't seem to recall his name , it's possible someone here will remember.... anybody?

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I seem to remember a board member that had 24 bid retractions in the previous 6 months. I can't seem to recall his name , it's possible someone here will remember.... anybody? >>



RichG??

Oh wait not him, he was a gazillion-billionair he wouldnt need to do no stinkin' bid retractions.

Stone193

I wouldn't just block'm...

I'ld send out Pandrews!

Griffins

<< <i>I'ld send out Pandrews! >>



Good idea, Perry will smoke 'em!

zef204

<< <i>I seem to remember a board member that had 24 bid retractions in the previous 6 months. I can't seem to recall his name , it's possible someone here will remember.... anybody? >>

I think I have an idea

goose3

<< <i>I agree with Anthony. Anybody plays games with my auctions, they only do it once. >>




Exactly. I've grown very tired of people paying whenever they feel like it, etc...
If you don't follow my terms............BLOCKED...and I really couldn't care less if my stuff sells for a buck or 2 less because of it.

mkg809

Speaking of RichG, is he gone?

pandrews

<< <i>Speaking of RichG, is he gone? >>

diamondman

I've had 2 bid retractions in 6 months one was I hit the comma 20,00 = 2000.00 the other was a card that was PSA 9 in title until you looked real close at the picture then it was a PSA 9 MK. Watch that comma and alcohol induced Bids.

lawnmowerman

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<< <i>Speaking of RichG, is he gone? >>



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or

pandrews

matt, that is a horrific looking human being.. is that Andy Dick?..

lawnmowerman

<< <i>matt, that is a horrific looking human being.. is that Andy Dick?.. >>

got me. I found it on google

matt