How has a bidder retracted their bid??!!

frivolous_fay

vickitoria100 wrote:

Thanks Fay. It seems they have never bought or sold anything, have been a member for less than a month and retracted 2 bids - not fair surely? Thank you for your advice re: the safety centre. Do you know what the outcome of reporting them would be?

Probably no outcome... but at least if they're reported a few more times ebay should start to take an interest.

I like to mess with their heads... check the reason he retracted - I bet it's 'bid wrong amount'

Email them and ask when they will be re-bidding as per the bid retraction rules!

Dan29

vickitoria100 wrote:

the retraction does not fulfill the criteria about timelimits?

You can cancel your bid if there is more than 12 hours left on the auction.

vickitoria100

jakemuk wrote:

Wind ups nah i just tell the truth unlike others on here ! straight to point

But jakemuk, I thought the point of these forums were to be helpful to people who had queries and in return receive help about issues you need help with? As my nan would say, if you have got nothing good to say, then don't say nothing at all!rdwarr and frivolous_fay thanks again for your help and speedy responses! I will do as you advise and put it down to ebay learning! just one more thing, how do i check the reason they retracted as i did not receive any notification of it?

Kzlnd

I had a buyer email me yesterday saying they had entered an incorrect amount and could I help them as they were unsure how to retract a bid - I helped them. I'm not sure why you are so angry about it?
I've had 2 -3 buyers retract their bids before, I don't care what their reasons are. I had to retract a bid on one occassion, I had bid £99 instead of 99pence! People make typing errors! Maybe they just made a mistake?

I get more annoyed with those who win items and don't pay :mad: Evil eBayers! :rotfl:

LULUBELLE_2

Hi, if you go to the bottom of the bids page, the retraction will be listed there, together with the reason they selected when they cancelled.

vickitoria100

Kzlnd wrote:

I'm not sure why you are so angry about it?

I'm annoyed because I don't think that this was a genuine reason for retraction - it's not like they bid £150 instead of £15 or something like that - and I don't think that ebay should facilitate buyers who simply change their mind. Surely that is not what an auction is and I would never dream of doing so!LULUBELLE thanks for that. Have emailed her politely saying that i think she was wrong but oh well, won't let it ruin my day! Thanks everyone, once again the posters on this forum have proved themselves to be brilliant and really supportive x x

GeDink

At least they did retract their bid & not become a NPB..could of happened...saved you a lot of hassle in fees, time filling in Ebay forms to claim fees and chasing people up. Bid retractions do happen, I never consider anything truly sold until feedback has been left!

frivolous_fay

True... NPBs are a pain in the neck.

What the bidder SHOULD have done was email OP explaining politely that there was a problem, and asking for their bid to be cancelled. Now they've tainted their ebay record permanently instead.

Tirian

If they were the only bidder, then you do not know how much they actually entered as a maximum bid. Perhaps they entered a £200 max bid, and realised that was wrong and wanted to retract before someone bid them up!

Anyway, as has been said before - people who retract bids are irritating, but it's a whole lot better than dealing with a non-paying bidder. If people are not able to retract bids, then they will just end up being NPBs.

The only time I get really irritated when people retract bids is when it is obvious that they only placed the bid to find out what someone else's max was. It's hard to prove, but it certainly does happen.

vickitoria100

As explained above, I could see that they had entered £15 as their max bit and seen as the opening bid was £10, I do not think this was an error!