Help I put my max bid too high

[as_161253]

So I set my max bid on an item that was way higher than I wanted, and I don't know how to cancel it. I tried to fill out a retract bid, but it won't let me unless I contact the seller, which I did, and they said they wouldn't cancel it. What should I do?

[lady_madonna]

@as_161253 

There is nothing you can do.

Max bids cannot be lowered and the seller was not obligated to cancel your bid.

[woodland_gnome]

Unless you made a typo (or the seller changed the description after you bid) AND there is at least 12 hours left to run AND the item is NOT in one of the trading card categories, it is up to the seller to cancel or not.

When the seller chooses not to cancel and you don't have a valid reason with the right time and category to retract, you honor your promise to follow eBay's rules and hope you are outbid. If you win you can try again with the seller; there is a way for a buyer to initiate a Transaction Cancellation case before the seller starts the shipping process.  Go to My eBay: Purchase History: (select your item): More actions: Ask to cancel order.   See  https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/buyers-can-cancel-order/buyers-can-cancel-order?id=4004&st=12&pos=1... .    Then the seller has 3 days to reject it (if you haven't paid the cancellation goes through if the 3 days goes by without the seller taking action; if you have paid, including an automatic payment you were required to authorize when you bid then it does not go through unless the seller accepts it within the 3 days). Other than that you can try the seller again to see if s/he will do a Transaction Cancellation at your request (again, s/he is under no duty to do so or respond and can choose to file the Unpaid Item Dispute after 4 days instead), or pay, or take a UID strike, or hope s/he dithers around for a month until it's too late for him/her to open a UID.