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Sellers canceling a bid on mis-placed items
I am getting sick and tired of sellers who cancel bids on auctions that I win and they say it's because they can't find the item when in my personal opinion it could be they're not happy with the winning bid being under what they expected. That it has happened to me at least 20 different times and I'm getting sick of it. Suppose I as a seller place an item on auction and the book price is $75 and I only as a seller received $3 plus shipping from someone who did bid on an item and because I'm not happy with their bid as being too low I canceled their bid and say that it's because I no longer have the card or can't find it wouldn't that make everyone upset it's happened to me at least 20 times and this is ridiculous I honestly believe that sellers are doing this. After this happens numerous times I think sellers should be placed on notice and some of them not allowed to sell on eBay anymore.
woodland_gnome
·1 year agoA seller cannot cancel "a bid" after the auction ends, and a bidder cannot "win" before then, so I assume you mean the seller cancelled the "transaction" or "order" (the latter term seems preferred by eBay now) that resulted from an auction with a winning bidder.
The seller already got a "defect" when s/he cancelled the transaction for that reason. That is the primary tool eBay uses to weed out bad sellers, downgrading the selling status of those who get too many relative to their sales volume (as opposed to having to pay employees to actually investigate to see how likely it was that the seller had a legitimate reason to cancel vs. deliberate policy violations).
You may leave appropriate (calm, factual--if the seller said that x was the reason say "seller said x. . ." so people don't think you are just jumping to conclusions, which you very much are) feedback to warn future buyers/bidders. If the usual links have vanished, go to anyone's Feedback Profile (doesn't matter who, click on the feedback score in parentheses behind the username) then scroll down to below the last comment on that page to find a "Leave feedback" link that doesn't vanish (it brings you to a list of items you can leave feedback for).
Theoretically you could sue the seller for breach of the contract of sale (for the difference between the auction price and what you ended up having to pay for a replacement), but that is almost never practical.