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I recently received an e-mail notice from eBay...and then another one a minute later...same bidder. Excuse #1 "don't have the money" I think if you are gonna play wih the big boys, you should pay. Excuse "2 "found it cheaper" Quite possible, but (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) John, I'm paying part of my college ed with my ebay auctions. So I understand the frustration you feel. (...) After almost 400 auctions, I have only had 6 bid retractions. The explaination given: "Not a registered ebay user." Yet in 4 of the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Good luck to you = ) glad to see another person who understands...lol (...) I am nowhere near a 400 rating on eBay (yet!) Ironically I have conducted over 150 auctions with unique users, but I have not even hit 75 feedback... I do a bustling (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) explaination (...) late ones hurt.. (...) You definitely aren't alone. I've been lucky with only one retraction out of about 300 auctions but it was a lame 'no $' hours before close and cost me quite a bit. While browsing though I see more (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Well, this might be a crazy idea, but how about if e-bay automatically ended the auction when someone retracted and restarted? Or maybe extended the auction by the amount of time the retractor had a successful bid? I could see as a bidder it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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Hey, I just noticed this a few minutes ago while leaving someone feedback... underneath the numbers for positive, neutral and negative feedback there is a tally of total bid retractions in the past six months. I think this is new (although I'm not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I am somewhat reassured and concerned that others are seeing this now... (...) I have not done much browsing lately, but I did see that I was high bidder a couple of times recently when the bid that beat mine was retracted. (...) I agree with (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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