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Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
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lugnet.market.auction
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:46:57 GMT
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
> Then please bid on my auctions. I have had ELEVEN bid retractions on my
> auctions in the past month. FIVE in the past week. People put down that
> they bid too much. That is not an acceptable reason. I have considered
> leaving feedback about people who constantly retract their bids, as I think
> it is ridiculous. I have retracted one bid of mine since I started using
> ebay, as I misread an auction description. One of these jokers has
> retracted 8 bids in the past month.
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 the retracted bid, so you only lose whatever the
bid increment is?
Even so, I can see where it would be annoying... But am I understanding
it correctly?
Chris
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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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| | Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
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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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