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Bid retraction question?
How is it that someone puts a bid in on something you are selling and then two days later just retracts their bid without any contact between you or them at all doesn't seem right It's like a seller pulling his auction down during the mid auction. I would actually like to know who the bidder was so I can not allow them to bid on my stuff anymore it just doesn't seem right and it's not like it was a big loss of money it was just barely over a dollar compared to the next highest bidder but with no contact at all to even ask if they could retract their bid I would sure like to know who they are so I can avoid them.
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woodland_gnome
·2 years agoContacting the seller is NOT required to retract a bid. Either the bidder has one of the two valid reasons or s/he doesn't. Either s/he is within the deadlines for retracting or s/he is not. The seller has no say in that (other than giving the bidder a reason by adding to the description after s/he bids).
You should be able to find the reason the bidder GAVE for the retraction on the Bid History Page, in the section on cancellations and retractions below the main history (except eBay keeps reformatting pages, way too often with loss of functionality). Note that one retraction made prior to 12 hours before the scheduled end of the auction removes all bids that bidder placed on that auction, though information on only 1 bid will be displayed (after the 12 hour deadline it removes only the 1 bid leaving any prior ones by that bidder). You need to be logged in under the same ID you listed with, as only the seller and the particular bidder are allowed to see the reasons and the full ID of the bidder.
Go to the Listing Page for the auction (the one with the Description and the Shipping and Payments tab) and from there click on the # of bid display (even if "0 bids") to get to the Bid History Page.
And the reason given (actually picked from a list of the 2 valid reasons eBay allows) is usually a lie. eBay does nothing to enforce its rules on retraction for other than those 2 valid reasons. You can see the number of bid retractions that bidder has made in the past 12 months on his/her Feedback Profile, "Feedback as a Buyer" tab.
You (as seller) will be able to see the actual user ID of the retracting bidding, and you can add him/her to your Block Bidder/Buyer List.