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xangel000

can I just let people know what happened to me on ebay. Was bidding for a baby walker and went to put in my maximum bid of £10. By mistake I put 10,00 instead of 10.00 (comma instead of full stop) my maximum bid shot up to £10,000 and needless to say I won the said item for over £30 which I did not want to do. Ebay are not interested in the mistake and the seller does not reply to my e-mails so I guess I am going to have to pay this to keep my good name on ebay. Just watch that full stop.

soolin

xangel000 wrote: »

can I just let people know what happened to me on ebay. Was bidding for a baby walker and went to put in my maximum bid of £10. By mistake I put 10,00 instead of 10.00 (comma instead of full stop) my maximum bid shot up to £10,000 and needless to say I won the said item for over £30 which I did not want to do. Ebay are not interested in the mistake and the seller does not reply to my e-mails so I guess I am going to have to pay this to keep my good name on ebay. Just watch that full stop.

For future reference you are able to withdraw your bid up to 12 hours before auction ends and resubmit it purely to cover this sort of mistake. If you bid within the last 12 hours and make a mistake then it can still be withdrawn but only within 1 hour of the bid being placed.

HarryPotter_3

ANAMCARA wrote: »

to good to be true?#
Eat McD's Extra Value Meals For Free Every Week!
Get Paid For Eating McDonalds! One Time Offer
this is for sale on e-bay
has anyone got experience of this working?

WOULD GUESS WINNIGN THIS AUCTION WILL GET YOU AN EMAIL TELLING YOU TO GET A JOB AT MC DONALDS, THE FREE BURGERS ARE PART OF THE BENEFITS OF WORKING THERE, THAT WOULD MAKE THE SELLER A CON ARTIST.

SiobhanG_3

When you check a seller's feedback, always read their negative comments, even if there's only one or two. It'll give you the best idea of what might go wrong.

7db

There are some excellent tools on toolhaus.org that allow you just to check the negatives and neutrals.

Shocking_Blue

soolin wrote: »

For future reference you are able to withdraw your bid up to 12 hours before auction ends and resubmit it purely to cover this sort of mistake. If you bid within the last 12 hours and make a mistake then it can still be withdrawn but only within 1 hour of the bid being placed.

Can you do this yourself (and if so, where), or do you have to contact Ebay to withdraw the bid.

soolin

Shocking_Blue wrote: »

Can you do this yourself (and if so, where), or do you have to contact Ebay to withdraw the bid.

You can do it yourself. Just go to your bidding page and instructions are on there by the bid somewhere. However remember bids should only be withdrawn for a valid reason and the number of withdrawn bid s made in the past 6 months is shown on the users feedback page. (or at least it was, goodness knows whether it is still there with all these changes).

xxlaurissaxx

BuddyBonthenet wrote: »

The eBay message boards are full of people (buyers and sellers) being reminded that legislation like the Distance Selling Regulations often apply to their items - but a lot of sellers just don't want to know.

I'd not heard of Gumtree before - sounds good and looks easy to use so I might try that out. Has anyone actually used it as a buyer or a seller?

I don't see the point of using qxl instead of eBay - it does have a cheaper fees structure but both cqout and eBid are much cheaper because they don't charge to list or relist.

Watch out with cqout though as it has much stricter rules than any of the other auction sites and charges an automatic £35 fine for infringements of the rules (i.e. your guilty until you prove you are innocent - no I'm not speaking from experience here LOL!).

Anyone searching Google UK for 'online auction' will find eBid, then cqout, then eBay.

I have used gumtree before and yes it is really good. Get for freebies aswell :j

Aqeel_2

Yes I can do this myself and I have to contact Ebay to withdraw the bid.

brownbake

7db wrote: »

There are some excellent tools on toolhaus.org that allow you just to check the negatives and neutrals.

What negative cynical site.....