(...) So there are probably a lot of dishonest sellers out there doing this and not getting caught...? How does eBay "catch" someone? --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
(...) 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, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
