Bidder retracts bid over my reserve

[lakers32magic]

Bidder places a bid just over my  bid reserve, retracts it and places a smaller bid, is this a new way to find out the reserve ?

[buyselljack2016]

no, it's an old way. as old as a "reserve"

[candd205]

Using a reserve is not a great idea. You pay a fee for that whether your item sells or not. Instead of using a reserve, why not just set the price at the lowest price you will accept.

[lakers32magic]

Could be the sellers friend too.... I understand making a typo, but the bid went from 32.00 to 16.50 when it got retracted.

[12345jamesstamps]

You need to clink on the  bidder and see how many "retracts" they have done in a month or a year plus their history of bidding. That shows up at the bottom of the bidder's page. I saw a bidder with 200 retracts in a month. Buyers like that I would block or I would not bid on the auction.

Plus I had a bidder(s) with my auctions in the past with 2 eBay ID's doing this...caught him when 2 won items had the same address from 2 different eBay IDs.

[lakers32magic]

I just got off the phone with e-bay, they are retracting the bid and restricting the buyer for shopping e-bay for 15 days.

[12345jamesstamps]

Let's hope that buyer cannot create a new ID eBay account like so many others are able to do.

[lakers32magic]

I'd start getting withdrawls if I couldn't shop e-bay for 15 days.

[bennotbill]

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@lakers32magic wrote:

I just got off the phone with e-bay, they are retracting the bid and restricting the buyer for shopping e-bay for 15 days.

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If they really did something like that they would never tell you.

[simba6]

Don't waste money on a reserve.  A starting price does not cost extra. 

[gator08041971]

I haven't used a reserve in over a decade.  And I have done a lot of auctions.  lol

I think its something that isn't needed in this age of eBay to be honest.  I get why someone might want to use it, but as someone else said, why not just start the bidding at your lowest acceptable price?  (that price might need to include the fees that eBay will take from the sale, and any other costs as well)

[janet9988]

It is considered an invalid bid retraction.

[safan80]

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Why doesn't the seller starting the bid at your reserve price? Having a reserve is not of silly when you can set the starting bid amount. Or by bid reserve you mean you highest bid on an auction?

@lakers32magic wrote:

Bidder places a bid just over my  bid reserve, retracts it and places a smaller bid, is this a new way to find out the reserve ?

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[mudshark61369]

@lakers32magic,

Did you place an early automatic bid, that the other bid against until they uncovered your max bid?  If so it may have been a bidder who wanted to uncover your max bid to see if it was more than they were willing to pay for the item or not.  If it was that was why they retracted their last bid.

As @12345jamesstamps  wrote you can click on the bidders scrambled ID (a***B) to see their bid history and their number of retractions. They may do that often which does violate ebay's invalid bid retraction policy, which unfortunately ebay does nothing about.

FYI If you looked up a phone number online to call ebay, you did not speak to anyone associated with ebay.  The only way you can speak to an ebay rep is to get a call back. Even then those reps have no power to give a member a suspension.  They may tell you what they want to hear, just to get you off the phone.

[lakers32magic]

Yes I placed an automatic bid and I did get a call back from e-bay