Accidental Bid on Ebay...

mamabuddah

I was bidding for an item on Ebay, the item I reckoned was worth no more than about £15 or £16. In the last few minutes of the bidding, I saw the item was sitting around £15 so I put in a bid of what I thought was £17.02 (hoping to beat the high bid at the time).

I'm not sure what happened, obviously an error on my part, but I actually bid £1702.00, I'm still not sure what happened!.

I won the auction at approx £22 as I pipped the then highest bidder at approx £21.99. When I realised what happened I emailed the seller immediately explaining what happened, I even have a screen grab showing my accidental high bid of £1702.

I apologised to the seller and asked if he would "mutually" cancel the sale because of the error and then he could immediately offer it to the 2nd highest.

However he appears to be ignoring my emails and now I have received an invoice from ebay for the sale.

What should I do.

19lottie82

A bit late now, as the auction has ended.

The seller is under no obligation to agree to a cancellation. If he is ignoring your request you have two choices.

1) Don't pay and receive a non payment strike.
2) Pay a bit extra than you were hoping to and take it as a lesson learned to pay more attention in future when entering a bid!

campdave

The seller is not obligated to cancel your bid.

You do have to confirm the bid before you pace it, so it's your fault for not checking.

If the seller doesn't want to cancel, you can either pay or wait for the seller to open a NPB claim against you.

Be more careful in the future and you'll avoid wasting everyone's time.

Alidolly

If the seller won't cancel the sale, then pay or take a strike. Up to you what you'd rather have...a few pounds extra to pay for an item you wanted or a negative against your name for any future purchases. It's not a MASSIVE increment to pay (I'd be concerned had it been a few hundred quid you were to pay but a fiver or so?)

RFW

Alidolly wrote: »

If the seller won't cancel the sale, then pay or take a strike. Up to you what you'd rather have...a few pounds extra to pay for an item you wanted or a negative against your name for any future purchases. It's not a MASSIVE increment to pay (I'd be concerned had it been a few hundred quid you were to pay but a fiver or so?)

I agree. Pay the extra fiver to cover the mistake you made. I think that's the least you can do for the seller, who may not be able to sell to the second bidder.

pinkshoes

If the seller is not willing to cancel, then your options are to pay for it, or get a non paying bidder strike.

As your error seems to be genuine, then it is a little harsh that the seller wont cancel, but then if you were daft enough to not check the amount, then you might be daft enough not to accept the cancellation, landing the seller with fees.

19lottie82

above reported as spam

ukmike

or a negative against your name for any future purchases.

Sellers can't leave a negative to buyers.

d70cw6

just dont pay for the item - the ramifications of non payment are nil.

19lottie82

d70cw6 wrote: »

just dont pay for the item - the ramifications of non payment are nil.

For a single non payment, true. but to mess someone about for the sake of a fiver, that's pretty poor. i'd just pay it and take it as a lesson learned to be more careful when bidding in future.

charlies_mum

d70cw6 wrote: »

just dont pay for the item - the ramifications of non payment are nil.

If you only do it once, that's not going to have any affect, but do it twice and you may find yourself blocked from some sellers items (mine included)