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How does a seller get by with cancelling a bid, right before the auction ends? No explanation nada
Apparently Ebay is fine with this… seller cancelled bid right before end of auction, how can they just screw the buyer like this? …auction was starting bid & had buy it now price, and way over priced shipping ( 6.99 for a coin) Ebay sent email & notification that my bid was cancelled, right before end of auction, ( emails states check bid history for explanation…. ‘ there is no bid history’ … said bidders ‘0’. To many protections for seller not enough for buyers, this is why I dont visit / buy on Ebay like I have in the past…
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woodland_gnome
·2 years agoA seller can cancel any bidder's bid(s--one cancellation removes all bids by that bidder on that auction) at any time before the auction ends, and may do so for just about any reason, the verboten reasons having to do with schemes to evade eBay fees, such as:
It is specifically against the rules for a seller to cancel all bids and end the auction early without a winner IF it is because s/he deliberately set the Starting Price lower than s/he was willing to sell for, and it hasn't reached that high. This is considered fee avoidance because eBay charges a substantial fee for sellers to have a Reserve Price so they aren't promising to sell as low as their Starting Price.
But there are legitimate reasons why a seller would have to do so, and a few years ago eBay got tired of having to divine the subjective intent of a seller who took that action, so it adopted some procedures that make it less attractive to do so with that intention: it can only be done before the countdown reaches 12 hours AND it charges a fee (the FVF% for that seller in that category times the highest cancelled bid) when s/he does so (with the first such fee per calendar year waived to allow for the very occasional legitimate reason for doing so).
"0 bids" does not mean that "there is no bid history." If you click on the "0 bids" in the listing page on the full website for the auction you are talking about it WILL take you to the bid history page which will show all cancellations and retractions including yours.