Cancel a bid

Question

I have entered a wrong bid amount and want to cancel bid.

woodland_gnome · Answer

eBay got rid of bid retractions in various trading card categories a couple of years ago after there were too many bidders engaging in "bid shielding" by using multiple accounts to run the bid up then retract on all but one leaving the price for that account artificially low.

You would need to contact the seller and ask him to cancel your bid. S/he is not obligated to do so nor to respond to your request. When the seller chooses not to cancel (or doesn't respond or claims ignorance of the procedure etc.) and you cannot (or may not in other situations where you don't have one of the two valid reasons--the seller changed the description or to correct a typo) retract, you honor your promise to follow eBay's rules and hope you are outbid (or that the competitors don't exceed what you are willing and able to pay). If you win you can try again with the seller; there is a way for a buyer to initiate a Transaction Cancellation case within the first hour after the transaction (end of auction--Purchase History: More actions: Ask to cancel order) https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/buyers-can-cancel-order/buyers-can-cancel-order?id=4004&st=12&pos=1&query=How%20buyers%20can%20cancel%20an%20order&intent=buyer%20cancel&docId=HELP1019#section1 and the seller has 3 days to reject it (if you haven't paid the cancellation goes through if the 3 days goes by without the seller taking action). Other than that you can try the seller again to see if s/he will do a Transaction Cancellation at your request (again, s/he is under no duty to do so or respond and can choose to file the Unpaid Item Dispute after 4 days instead), or pay, or take a UID strike, or hope s/he dithers around for a month until it's too late for him/her to open a UID. An "obvious typo" used to be listed in the User Agreement as a valid reason for non-payment, but that was removed years ago.

cardcollectibles · Answer

It is on a trading card.