EBay Is Just So Damned Horrible ...

[LOTRFan]

For the second time in a week I have had a bidder retract a bid hours and now in this case days after placing it. EBay is becoming so unfriendly to the seller that it is just ridiculous, how do they allow a buyer to cancel bids with no recourse days after their "commitment" to buy an item? All the bidder has to do is say that they entered the wrong amount, in this case 6 days later and there is nothing a seller can do about it? ____ eBay, so much for a contract to purchase ....

:emperor :emperor


PS - One ********* cancelled his bid on my item only to bid on p!tu's at .99

 

[King Darkness]

Sorry man, I'll stop canceling my bids.

 

[EVILFACE]

Sorry man, I'll stop canceling my bids.

 

[LOTRFan]

Sorry man, I'll stop canceling my bids.

Thanks King!

 

[darthviper107]

Check the box where they have to send payment immediately

 

[LOTRFan]

Check the box where they have to send payment immediately

It wasn't a Buy It Now auction.

Obviously there should be something in place for a buyer who makes a typo or some other mistake, but to allow someone to cancel a bid 10 hours or 6 days later is just fookin' stupid.

 

[RoboDad]

I only bid it up so high to discourage people from bidding on yours when they should be bidding on mine.

















But seriously, I had a bid canceled this morning on one of my auctions as well, but it wasn't the bidder who canceled it, it was eBay. The bidder's account was apparently suspended. What was weird was that it wasn't the high bid, and didn't affect the current high bid at all.

 

[EVILFACE]

If you can't cancel a auction in the final 24 hours, you shouldn't be able to cancel a bid during that period either!

 

[The Ween]

For the second time in a week I have had a bidder retract a bid hours and now in this case days after placing it. EBay is becoming so unfriendly to the seller that it is just ridiculous, how do they allow a buyer to cancel bids with no recourse days after their "commitment" to buy an item? All the bidder has to do is say that they entered the wrong amount, in this case 6 days later and there is nothing a seller can do about it? ____ eBay, so much for a contract to purchase ....

:emperor :emperor


PS - One ********* cancelled his bid on my item only to bid on p!tu's at .99

Did you inform eBay about this?

 

[LOTRFan]

Did you inform eBay about this?

Sure did, they told me to add them to my blocked bidder list.

 

[The Ween]

Sure did, they told me to add them to my blocked bidder list.

Oh that's a real help!

You and pitu selling the same thing?

What's the sellers name? We can all block him!

 

[King Darkness]

Damnit, I just tried to bid on some stuff, appears I have been blocked

 

[LOTRFan]

Oh that's a real help!

You and pitu selling the same thing?

What's the sellers name? We can all block him!

They were the buyer/bidder: feb_ulous626 and rome_325

:emperor

 

[King Darkness]

Guess I'll go bid on some of p!tus stuff now.

 

[LOTRFan]

Damnit, I just tried to bid on some stuff, appears I have been blocked

 

[The Ween]

Thank you! BLOCKED!

 

[azurepred]

I would rather have the bidder retract the bid then have the auction end, and then they flake out of paying for it. Things happen, people change their minds, but once the auction ends, then they have agreed to pay for the item they won.

 

[RoboDad]

I have mixed feelings about retracted bids as well. On the one hand, it is frustrating as a seller to think you have an item that is selling, only to have the bid disappear, especially if the existence of the bid might have caused some other bidder to move on to another auction for the same item. But on the other hand, as azurepred said, it is better to know before the auction ends if someone doesn't intend to complete the transaction.

And, as a buyer, I can kind of understand the mindset. Using a retail analogy, if I go into Target and buy a product, and then take it home, only to find a Walmart ad that advertises the same product at a lower price, I will head back to Target, and ask them to either price match or give me a refund. I think that many people view ebay as a large online shopping mall. If they bid on your item, but then the same item pops up a day later in a buy it now auction, and at a lower price, it doesn't surprise me that they don't realize they are essentially breaking their contract with you. They just want the item at the lowest price.

 

[Bamboota]

what are u selling hmmm??

 

[RoboDad]

Are you asking Matt, or me? Either way, you can find links to both our auctions in the commerce section.