Bloody Ebay

M@Turner · Post by **M@Turner** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:04 pm

Whats all that about that people can enter an amount to bid on an item then decide, "actually i don't wanna pay that much" and retract their bid!

When entering an amount it tells you to confirm your bid, so you can make sure you aint mis - typed it...but it appears you can still retract your bid and say you mis-typed it as a valid reason to cancel your bid!!!

Then to make it worst, the second highest bidder decided they wanted to retract their bid too!

I am not happy in the slightest.

Sorry for the rant!!!

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:08 pm

i know what you mean - it is damned annoying. If people place a bid, they should think about it prior!!

What did it happen on if i may ask?

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:50 pm

They should only be allowed to retract the bids if they are way over ie. Â£100million for something worth Â£1.

You can report it to eBay however if you feel the bidders have abused the Bid Retract option http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/bid-retract.html though what good that'll do I'm not sure.

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:54 pm

eBay are surprisingly good with people who abuse the rules - they ban them from ever using ebay again in quite a few different ways. Read a case about it on a forum a while back where some guy got done for fraud!

M@Turner · Post by **M@Turner** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:55 am

Cheers for replies guys. I reckon the first person who retracted their bid, bid a certain amount to find out the reserve!!! Then the second person retracted theirs cause people would then know what his maximum bid was!!!

What the chances of ebay actually doing somet about it though!??

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:20 pm

I think regardless of how likely eBay are to do something, you should contact them and report the two who retracted their bids, as it can't hurt to try.

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:06 pm

yeah this pisses me off, it puts people off bidding as well although ebay wont do bugger all about it, a mate of mine was a complete c**t and ripped loads of people off, ebay banned his account for a year...so he opened another one...

JoeG07 · Post by **JoeG07** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:34 pm

to be fair i have previously bidded like Â£500 instead of Â£50 for things before, ebay are good at penalizing people, ive experienced 1st hand lol

M@Turner · Post by **M@Turner** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:36 pm

JoeG07 wrote:to be fair i have previously bidded like Â£500 instead of Â£50 for things before, ebay are good at penalizing people, ive experienced 1st hand lol

I'd understand that but he didn't put his bid in until it was already past like Â£150. He just changed his mind or somet!!

Well they didn't sell for what i was after so looks like i'll be keeping them for a little while!

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:58 pm

Run up to Christmas possibly isn't the best time to be selling them.

I bought mine in late December couple of years back, reckon they would have been more a couple of months later.

Jack. · Post by **Jack.** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:44 pm

ebays annoying it asks me to pay my fees witch i did and now there saying i need to pay the 3 quid more haha