Buyer keeps retracting bids for a laugh

hubb

I am sick and tired of this person all day has been bidding ridiculous amounts and retracting with reasons like "entered wrong amount" I have blocked the idiot but I bet your bottom dollar Ebay wont do anything if I report him. This is what happens when Ebay protect, pamper and appease buyers- they take advantage and extract the urine.

Sagz_2

Can you let us know who it is please - then we can all block him.
x

hubb

alpinabmw2010

Excellent idea :-)

lindseykim13

have you reported them? hope that link works lol
http://contact.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ContactUs&wftype=2022&rcode=IV%25P10064&subject=Invalid%20Bid%20Retraction&bcrumb=%20Home%20%3E%20Help%20%3E%C2%A0Membership%20%26%20account%C2%A0%3E%C2%A0Rules%20%26%20policies%C2%A0%3E%C2%A0Invalid%20bid%20retraction%20policy&instruction=&expirationDate=

have blocked them myself can't stand people who do this i've had it myself once, nightmare.

hubb

The real person who holds the account tells me "sorry, it's a problem with a little brother" well sorry, they will stay blocked and if I were them, little brother would get a slap.

TurkishDelight

hubb wrote: »

The real person who holds the account tells me "sorry, it's a problem with a little brother" well sorry, they will stay blocked and if I were them, little brother would get a slap.

Good for you- if they are dumb enough to let other people on their account then they need the consequenses. Personally I'd also report them under the underage user policy http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/identity-underage-users.html

The last thing ebay needs is badly behaved children- bad enough with the badly behaved adults.

DaveAshton

I'm tempted to report them to PS support, but I doubt they'll do anything because it's not directly affecting us.

Might as well though, can't do any harm

CliffWalker_2

Just a thought, maybe they're just trying different size high bids to keep an eye on what the current maximum bid is.
If a bidder keeps doing this they can see what the next highest bidder is prepared to pay and leave their last bid on - if the item is within their budget...
A sneaky tactic and more likely to backfire if the seller notices and blocks you.

hubb

They bid £1.75 and then £350 and then £9. I don't think that is serious.

The buyer keeps asking for me to unblock him and the last, quite rudely abrupt email I got after asking if he was genuine was

"my brother is small he was messing around on the computer unblock me"

Would you give them another chance ? Ebay got back to me to tell me they have "Delt" with the buyer after I reported him for letting under-age users access . Yeh right.

cyberbob

hubb wrote: »

Would you give them another chance ? .

No once they are blocked they are blocked in my book.

martindow

hubb wrote: »

Would you give them another chance ?

No definitely not. TSFE and needs to be avoided.