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I can't bid
A seller blocked me,
I thought I was outbid but I guess not it was for two separate watches.
After they blocked me I was afraid to pay for the items.
Now I can't do business with people of whom I trust and buy from on a weekly basis
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woodland_gnome
·3 years agoYou promised to pay so you pay. You are protected by the Money Back Guarantee so what do you have to be "afraid to pay for the items"?
A seller can block any particular user for ANY reason and is not required to disclose the reason to anyone, or can block a particular class of users (e.g. someone with 2 unpaid item cancellations in the past 12 months) automatically.
How, exactly, did you find out the seller had blocked you unless you tried to bid/offer/buy again?
The winner and price are determined from the active bids (i.e. not cancelled or retracted before the end) at the end of the auction. Until then any bid could win, even if it has been outbid (if the higher bid is cancelled or retracted; exception: if there is a Reserve Price that remains "Reserve not met" AFTER you place your bid that bid CANNOT win the auction no matter what anyone else does). eBay does warn on your My eBay: Bids/Offers: Bids that this can happen if at least one of the bids is showing outbid, but could do a better job of warning people in the onscreen immediate outbid notice and/or any email outbid notice.
If cancellations/retractions put you back as high bidder when the auction ends, you are the winner (unless your bid was "Reserve not met" after you placed it) and are obligated to pay, so don't go looking for a replacement item unless you are willing and able to pay for both.
Once the auction ends without you as the winner (if you are watching the countdown give a hard refresh after a few seconds to what appears to be a final result before relying on the results--a last second but still timely bid might not have been processed and the new results available to all servers for a few seconds) then you owe no more obligation to that auction. The seller might send you a Second Chance Offer if the winner backs out (and you have not opted out of receiveing such SCOs in your My eBay: Account: Communication Preferences) but you are under no legal or moral obligation to accept it.