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Re: Cancelled bids on Ebay--what to do?
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lugnet.market.auction
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:40:00 GMT
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It is just something you have to live with... it happens. Be thankful the bids
are retracted before the auction's end.
There are bidders who do it deliberately try to manipulate the system. The
worst example of this I have experienced was when a bidder claimed to have typed
"$54" by mistake rather than "$25". However, the bidder mailed me and explained
the situation:
"would it be OK if I just left the wrong bid in place, and we could sort the
matter out afterwards"
Her motives were obvious.
Scott A
Alan Demlow wrote:
> I'm auctioning a bunch of sets on Ebay and have now had two cancelled bids
> by people. This is getting annoying and could potentially cost me some
> bidders. In the last case, the cancelled bid lowered the high bid by
> about $20, giving as his reason his finances didn't allow it or something
> like that. If people have been paying attention, this obviously could cost
> me a lot of bidders unless they're willing to pay $20 more than the
> current asking price.
>
> So what do people do in situations like this? Negative feedback for
> cancelled bids is the first thing that comes to mind. Also, is it
> possible to cancel bids up until the last minute? I'm afraid that if
> people do this toward the end of the auction, I could get stuck with bids
> getting lowered and the price having no chance to recover, then being
> forced to sell at prices which are uncompetitive (from a seller's
> standpoint).
>
> Alan
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> Alan Demlow |demlow@lightlink.com |www.lightlink.com/demlow/sale/trade.txt
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Scott A
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| (...) typed (...) explained (...) Speaking of these things, what can I do with this guy? (URL) bid the opening bid, then immediately retracted it and as the reason put: "Min Bid is too high for opened product; new product is available at near same" (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| I'm auctioning a bunch of sets on Ebay and have now had two cancelled bids by people. This is getting annoying and could potentially cost me some bidders. In the last case, the cancelled bid lowered the high bid by about $20, giving as his reason (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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