quick rant: ebay bid retraction BS

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Just have to vent for a minute.

Im just tired of ebay, sucks that its the only viable option for the quantity that i do. Latest thing thats been happeing, besides non-paying bidders, is bid retractions. Getting alot of people bidding, then retracting there bid a day or two later. Latest one for me, a bid on my dragons lair 2. Opeing bid of 550.00, buy it now of 900. This idiot bids on it, then next day retracts his bid. The part that pisses me off the most is his reason, entered wrong amount. well when you retract your bid, it shows what your bid was, his amount was 550, which was my opening bid. So there is no way he could have entered the wrong abmount, because that was the minimum that you could enter since it was my starting bid

rant over
thanks
troy
 
Just have to vent for a minute.

Im just tired of ebay, sucks that its the only viable option for the quantity that i do. Latest thing thats been happeing, besides non-paying bidders, is bid retractions. Getting alot of people bidding, then retracting there bid a day or two later. Latest one for me, a bid on my dragons lair 2. Opeing bid of 550.00, buy it now of 900. This idiot bids on it, then next day retracts his bid. The part that pisses me off the most is his reason, entered wrong amount. well when you retract your bid, it shows what your bid was, his amount was 550, which was my opening bid. So there is no way he could have entered the wrong abmount, because that was the minimum that you could enter since it was my starting bid

rant over
thanks
troy
Wait... I didn't even know you could retract your bid? But yeah that sucks.
 
Wait... I didn't even know you could retract your bid? But yeah that sucks.

Yea, you can do bid retractions. It's supposed to be done very rarely, and only when you really f-up your bidding, but I think a lot of people abuse it. I personally have never done so, but then I'm very careful about my bidding, and I've only screwed up one time (it was a dutch auction, and I swapped the dollars and the # of items.) Fortunately, the seller had run out of the parts and couldn't delivery anyway.
 
The darker side of bid retractions is when two accounts bid up an auction high enough to scare off all other bidders, then retract the higher bid late in the auction, leaving the item at the minimum price with almost no time for it to recover.

Whenever I sell something that's going for more than a few bucks, I include a statement in the auction text addressing bid retractions so I'm protected if someone pulls that crap.
 
Just have to vent for a minute.

Im just tired of ebay, sucks that its the only viable option for the quantity that i do. Latest thing thats been happeing, besides non-paying bidders, is bid retractions. Getting alot of people bidding, then retracting there bid a day or two later. Latest one for me, a bid on my dragons lair 2. Opeing bid of 550.00, buy it now of 900. This idiot bids on it, then next day retracts his bid. The part that pisses me off the most is his reason, entered wrong amount. well when you retract your bid, it shows what your bid was, his amount was 550, which was my opening bid. So there is no way he could have entered the wrong abmount, because that was the minimum that you could enter since it was my starting bid

rant over
thanks
troy

Thats a nice Dragon's Lair 2. I'd almost bite on it but would prefer Space Ace or Dragons Lair 1.
 
exactly why i havent listed stuff there for over a year.....

that and ebays newer policy to completely protect a non paying bidder and when they dont pay, they can still leave you a neg but you cant givwe them one... or the buyer that says they didnt get the item when you cna prove they did, but they file a pp claim and get thier money back anyways..... legalized theft!!!

TOTAL bs
 
the s hi ts that list stuff and then pull their add are just as bad
if you dont want somthing to sell cheap then place a reserve some ars just pulled his auction i was biding on
what a peice of trash about had a rejuv for 99 cents then the biatch goes and pulls the add 2 hours before its sposed to end
 
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