A bidder requested to retract bid

[rhonda664]

I’m not sure how this works but I got an email from a bidder to retract there bid. Aren’t they supposed to do that?  Please let me know. I don’t want her higher bid to go through then she won’t pay. 

[inceptions]

There are only a few valid reasons that a buyer has to retract a bid. However, you can cancel the bid and then add the buyer to your blocked buyer list if you don't want to deal with him in the future.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CancelBidShow

http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/biddermanagement.html

[woodland_gnome]

Bidders may retract for only two reasons:  You changed the description of the item after they bid, or to CORRECT a typo in entering the bid amount.   They can do so only within a limited timeframe (before the last 12 hours, or during the last 12 hours only for a bid placed within the past 1 hour).

A seller can cancel a bid at any time before the auction actually ends, and may do so for just about any reason (including that the bidder asked even with no good reason; the verboten reasons have to do with schemes to avoid eBay fees).

It is usually best for a seller to cancel a bid on request, unless the bid has kept the price raised a significant amount of money relative to what it will go down to (generally to 1 increment over the 3rd highest bidder's maximum bid) for a significant amount of time relative to the time remaining in the auction.  Be sure to add the bidder to your Blocked Bidder/Buyer List.