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Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
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lugnet.market.theory
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:41:47 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Frank Filz writes:
> > > Auction ends, seller rakes in the dough, and the buyer is probably
> > > naively happy, thinking that they beat out someone else and not
> > > realizing that they paid more than they probably would have if the
> > > seller hadn't intervened...
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> > Wow, that's totally nasty. Great example! Can that sort of thing happen
> > on eBay as it is now, BTW?
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> Yep. It's also grounds for closing your account if you get caught.
So there are probably a lot of dishonest sellers out there doing this and not
getting caught...? How does eBay "catch" someone?
--Todd
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| (...) I doubt there's many people doing this. It's not impossible to catch someone. All bid retractions and cancelations are recorded in the bid history for the auction. A user's bid profile shows the number of bid retractions in the past 7 days, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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