Someone explain this to me?

eyelinerprincess

Had a bidder message me saying "I didn't mean to bid on item x, or on item y either"

I'm sorry but you have to confirm your bid, so I don't see how anyone can't mean to bid once, let alone on two items...I've never accidentally bid on something, it drives me nuts when people time-waste like that.

:mad::mad::mad:

theonlywayisup

Their cat, dog, unborn child or dead relative probably did it.

Taadaa

I have had loads of these recently. Must be something in the air.

sharnad

I have accidentally bid too much but never accidentally bid before

JethroUK

Taadaa wrote: »

I have had loads of these recently. Must be something in the air.

Might be a scam - the whooooooooole bidding process is based upon bidding blind - no knowing how much it will take to win the item

They could just bid someone up - if they end up winning - retract the bid - by which time they know how much the item can be bought for and decide whther to pay for it or NOT

Ebay should not let them retract a bid for these reasons - it undermines Ebays whooooooole business model

You can get applications that can scam much much faster than individuals can

Once sellers start to loose confidence in the Ebay process they are bust - there is no way back from there

RainbowDrops

Block the bidders.

RHemmings

I have made bids that I regretted, but I have never retracted one.

The worst one was where I bid for a VHS video set thinking it was a DVD set. I hope that I was half asleep at the time. Fortunately few other people bid on it and hence it went nowhere near my overinflated (for a VHS) maximum bid. But it would have been a real problem if I'd been shilled.

Answering the OP's question, I'd guess it's a buyer who hasn't thought a bid through properly, and is regretting it at their leisure.