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| <snipped> (...) I think making bid retraction a habit is bad. However, as a seller, I'd rather a bid was retracted than ending up in a non-payment situation. ebay now tracks bid retractions, this guy retracted bids on SIX of my auctions last week (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) actually, i happen to just have an outbid notice here, this is what it says: "Of course, your existing bid may be reinstated if this competitor's bid falls through. You can keep an eye on things if there's still plenty time before the auction (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Domn't you have to justify a bid retraction, or has this changed? When I read the eBay TOS lo these many moons ago I thought it was pretty definite that you couldn't pull a bid for just any reason. There's no recourse in going to eBay (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) A similar pricing problem happens if someone fails to come through on their win, and the seller offers the item to the next highest bidder. The next highest bidder shouldn't necessarily have to pay their bid amount, but also shouldn't get the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) hey exitg... i was bidding on this lot as well... and i'm considering the $2200 lot also... i told the seller, and he said he's informed ebay about it... if you go back to the $3200 auction and look at the retractions.. it says something (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote in message news:38D90CA0.5B2ABF...orn.com... (...) $.50 (or (...) and (...) down to (...) well. (...) Maybe you don't even catch the barb on hook... you can't leave the retractor feedback (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) No. When the high bid is retracted, the next highest bid will only be $.50 (or whatever the bid increment is) above the bid BELOW it. So if I bid $1.50, then you bid $30.00, then someone else bids $31.00 and retracts it, you only have to beat (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message news:Frtvt0.KtE@lugnet.com... (...) notice. (...) the top (...) would (...) Then please bid on my auctions. I have had ELEVEN bid retractions on my auctions in the past month. FIVE in the past (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) Ahhh... That's really silly (or at least annoying). I wonder how many people do this to their own benefit -- get one throwaway hotmail account to do the retractions, then use my real account to place the low bid... Or maybe that was your whole (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) Hi Mike, I'm trying to understand how things are happening... When someone retracts a bid, the high bid should go to the next highest bidder, right? Shouldn't that value have been somewhere within $.50 (or whatever the bid increment is) from (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| Mike, (...) Hmm... I have had one over my 40 + auctions since December, so maybe it is just some of the people. I have been very fortunate, and I hope your luck goes better! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) I've had a retraction snipe... worked very well in my favor :) got the item i wanted for what i was willing to pay for... (and had many surprises too... i only bought it for the monorail, but it had 20lbs of other cool things in it :) I always (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| Sun Yun wrote in message ... (...) Ninja (...) "Ninja (...) impressive (...) Ninja (...) My (...) better. (...) there. (...) Get ready to laugh <g>: In the 'Wonderful World of DBR' the populations are as follows: Black Falcons: 12 Broad Sword men, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I traced the lack of power to a dead wire between C5 and pin 28 of U14; soldering a small piece of wire between these connections fixed it. Thanks, everything works perfectly now! (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Trying to be seen as a leftist, may be, but I'm not sure about the possibility of being a "leftist" and "1st lady of USA" at the same time. Anyway, it was not the point. Your attitude about this subject (continuously ranting about "leftists" (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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