The general rule is that you don't. When you placed your bid you promised to keep that offer on that item (and pay for it if the seller accepted before it expires) absent a very few very specific extraordinary circumstances. If you think your reason might be such an extraordinary circumstance, let us know specifically what it is (the reasons are very narrowly defined), when you bid, and when the auction ends and we can give you an accurate answer to your question (or an alternative solution, if there is one, to your problem). Or you may contact the seller and beg him/her to reject the offer or let it expire, but s/he is under no obligation to do so nor to acknowledge the request, and neither not responding nor responding that it's OK with him/her is among the valid reasons to force a cancellation. Or s/he could accept it before it expires regardless of your request.
woodland_gnome
·3 years agoThe general rule is that you don't. When you placed your bid you promised to keep that offer on that item (and pay for it if the seller accepted before it expires) absent a very few very specific extraordinary circumstances. If you think your reason might be such an extraordinary circumstance, let us know specifically what it is (the reasons are very narrowly defined), when you bid, and when the auction ends and we can give you an accurate answer to your question (or an alternative solution, if there is one, to your problem). Or you may contact the seller and beg him/her to reject the offer or let it expire, but s/he is under no obligation to do so nor to acknowledge the request, and neither not responding nor responding that it's OK with him/her is among the valid reasons to force a cancellation. Or s/he could accept it before it expires regardless of your request.