E-Bay Question

Thanks
John1

I thought you can't do it all the time.

People who cancel bids get put on my ban list. I make exceptions for obvious typos, but otherwise if you cancel a bid on one of my auctions, you never bid on my stuff again. I'm not messing up my sales for people who spread bids like grass seed.

I had a winner once contact me to get out of the deal, blaming it on his kid who'd done the bidding. It was a non-numismatic item which would reasonably appeal to a kid, so I let him have that. If you contact me about the retraction, I'll at least listen. Stuff happens. I just don't want the people who bid on ten identical items in order to lock in one.

For the sellers here: what is more irritating someone who retracts a bid, or the person who contacts you after they won and ask to cancel the sale. I know I prefer to have the person either retract their bid or ask me to cancel it for them. When they retract a bid, at least others have a chance to bid. Once they ask to cancel a sale, you need to go through the entire process all over. I'd rather have a buyer who really wants the item, a better chance of getting good rating. The person who's looking to get out of the purchase, may not be too happy and thus low ratings. In jan, I had 4 people buy it now, pay and then request a refund 30 minutes later. Now it really was a pain, especially when they bought 5 items. I cannot understand the buyer who purchases a bin, then pays for it, and then decides they no longer want the item. I don't use the pay immediate button, as I've been fortunate not to have any issues in this area.

It doesn't surprise me that it is unenforceable. That is one of the reasons I don't think people should be allowed to open multiple accounts - if banned on one they can use another. Or avoid hitting whatever "number" would get you banned by spreading the "reneges"/retractions around. I guess they can beard in anyway but they shouldn't be allowed back in under their name at least.

It is unfortunately an "honor system" and some have no honor or ethics I'm afraid. I have made type-os as a buyer and had to retract, but it is rare. I once missed the first digit on a listing I was selling and had it up at a fraction of the worth for a few minutes until I caught it - and 2 people had already looked at it but luckily they didn't try to buy it. I recently had a buyer bid multiple times on a coin and then after I agreed on a BO they emailed me asking to cancel because they "thought" it was a rarer date and got confused! If it had been that date their offers would have been major major lowballs. I decided it wasn't worth fighting over so I just cancelled and banned them. How you would make 3 offers on a coin, over two days, and never realize it was not the rarer date you thought? Seems a bit dubious.

Buyer's remorse is likely much more at play on these than simple mistakes. That stinks but some have no conscience, or ethics. They view all deals as some dog-eat-dog no rules no ethics wasteland. Oughta be a law! LOL