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Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
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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...

Wow, that's totally nasty.  Great example!  Can that sort of thing happen
on eBay as it is now, BTW?

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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  Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
 
(...) 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, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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  Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again)
 
(...) Yep. It's also grounds for closing your account if you get caught. (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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