posted on January 29, 2004 09:25:12 AM new
I was at UPS yesterday and the nice girl that works the counter asked me if there was a way to cancel a bid on Ebay if you made a mistake. I told her of course just retract your bid to err is human so if she bid the wrong amount or something in the ad was highway robbery like 50.00 shipping on a 5 oz. item. She said oh it's not for me ...it's for a friend who collects (it was some signed picture of a old movie star ...can't remember the name)She said the guy looked everywhere but couldn't find out how to cancel his bid. The reason he wanted to cancel was after he bid he read the ad again and it was a photo copy not the real thing.To me it was his fault for not reading it good first but thats not why I'm writing this.The reason I'm writing this is after looking for 20 mins. or so to cancel his bid and not being able to find it....he opened a new account and out bid himself and plans on not paying !! This is where some of your NON PAYING BIDDERS are coming from. I think Ebay needs to put something like retract a bid on the page where these people can find them. I showed her where bid retraction was at so he won't do it again but it's just scary to think of how many people do this.
posted on January 29, 2004 11:59:29 AM new
It is pretty easy to find the place for bid retractions, it's in the site map under "buying tools". People maybe don't know what "site map" means though..EBay could make this more user friendly ..like calling it something else! Also if you click on the number of bids (ie: 5) you get the bid history and at the bottom is a link to retract/cancel bids.
[ edited by neglus on Jan 29, 2004 12:01 PM ]
posted on January 29, 2004 01:13:31 PM new
It's as simple as can be!
Go to you My Ebay page,click the bidding watching tab, go to bottom of page click on: bid retraction!
posted on January 29, 2004 01:16:40 PM new
The idiot sellers that sell semi-heavy items with a penny start bid and no reserve and the charge $50 or more shipping when it costs maybe $15 or $20 must get a lot of this aggravation. They want to make $30 s/h profit on the item and could care less if it sells for the penny start bid. Most bidders only glance at the TOS or description and bid away on the great deal they think they are getting.
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posted on January 29, 2004 04:00:32 PM new
I agree it's not hard to find cause we know where to look but a newbie like the guy she was talking about doesn't . I remember when I first started out on ebay...it took forever to find a link under the site map. I just thought I tell this so we kinda know why some bidders don't pay.
posted on January 29, 2004 08:46:36 PM new
toasted, I agree that a new bidder would probably have trouble finding that. Look how many sellers come here because they can't find the info on ebay.
