Retracted Bids

horseykitty

I bid 99p for an item yeasterday with a maximum bid of £10.00. Mine was the opening bid, or so I thought.

On checking my account this morning I see that I am the winning bidder with a bid of £10 with 5+ hours to go - all well and good.
I've been in and checked the bid history and I have found two retracted bid entries. One for £6.01 placed on 17/10 and retracted on 20/10 and another for £10.01 placed on 21/10 and retracted two minutes later. Both these bids, which are by the same person give 'wrong amount entered' as the reason for withdrawing.

As I placed my bid yesterday morning, their bidding £10 and then withdrawing it bumped me up into winning bidder, but as it has been withdrawn why hasn't my winning bid gone down to 99p?

I have never withdrawn a bid, but upon checking I see this particular bidder has done so 300+ times in the last six months.

Any thoughts?

freddysmith

I would retract all my bids and report your findings to Ebay.
300+ retracted bids is unacceptable and seems like shill bidding.

horseykitty

How do I do this please?

freddysmith

You could go to the Customer Support tab and type in Retracting a Bid or click on the link

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow

No_Eye_Deer

I don't think you will be able to now, if as you say it only has 5+ hours to go.

You cant retract a bid on an auction which has less than 12 hours to go (unless you do it within one hour of placing it).

You would have to ask the seller to cancel the bid.

horseykitty

Thanks for all your replies.

What I can't understand is that when the £10.01 bid was retracted why wasn't the auction reset to my original bid of 99p? This doesn't seem very fair on me as the buyer.:(

RainbowDrops

horseykitty wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies.

What I can't understand is that when the £10.01 bid was retracted why wasn't the auction reset to my original bid of 99p? This doesn't seem very fair on me as the buyer.:(

Is there still another bid on the item?

freddysmith

The Shill Bidder will keep biting at the bid until they just go over and become the winning bidder, then they retract one bid becoming the under bidder and leaving you paying your highest amount.

horseykitty

I've rung custmer services at eBay and they've told me to send in a report about the incident. She agreed with me that you don't withdraw a bid just because it goes 1p over what you want to pay - but she didn't tell my why the auction wasn't reset to my original bid of 99p.

I guess these 'shill bidders' just get a thrill out of causing trouble do they? I've never heard of the term before but I guess I've been duped by one seeing as they've retracted so many bids over the last 6 months.
I personally couldn't be bothered - haven't they got anything better to do with their time? I can't understand how they keep their 100% rating though.

vuvuzela

horseykitty wrote: »

I've rung custmer services at eBay and they've told me to send in a report about the incident. She agreed with me that you don't withdraw a bid just because it goes 1p over what you want to pay - but she didn't tell my why the auction wasn't reset to my original bid of 99p.

I guess these 'shill bidders' just get a thrill out of causing trouble do they? I've never heard of the term before but I guess I've been duped by one seeing as they've retracted so many bids over the last 6 months.
I personally couldn't be bothered - haven't they got anything better to do with their time? I can't understand how they keep their 100% rating though.

Nothing to do with causing trouble, it is unscrupulous sellers fraudulently bidding against you for their own items and forcing the price up.

techspec

freddysmith wrote: »

I would retract all my bids and report your findings to Ebay.
300+ retracted bids is unacceptable and seems like shill bidding.

How can you see their retracted bid history?