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    a couple of great bid retractions... —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
   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)
   
        Re: a couple of great bid retractions... —Jodi Neal
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: a couple of great bid retractions... —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: a couple of great bid retractions... —John Radtke
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: a couple of great bid retractions... —Toki Barron
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: a couple of great bid retractions... —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
     (...) 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done much browsing lately, but I did see that I was high bidder a couple of times recently when the bid that beat mine was retracted.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)
   
        Re: a couple of great bid retractions... —Maggie Cambron
   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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