Bots and Kids

[unemployed_husky]

What is eBay gonna do about all the bots and kids bidding on this site? It makes it impossible to get anything.  Place bid on an item, then a 0 feedback account bids it up, bids it up, bids it up.  If you counter bid, it bids more, then it wins the auction, then surprise - auction isn't paid for and the item gets relisted 2 weeks later.  Or you find Pokemon cards or a toy, get outbid, and then the bid amount for a $10 item is bid up to $200 by some kids, then it doesn;t get paid for, and is relisted, and start all over again.  It's become impossible to get anything on eBay anymore. I just gave up completely on auctions.  I have used eBay since 2005 and the entire place is in the toilet.

[gosimus]

@unemployed_husky 

< what's your point? >     

Just a word to the wise.  It's to your own benefit to take a couple of extra minutes to decide whether or not you really want to place a bid.  Sellers see the record of those retractions and cancel your bid, because they don't want to risk being the next number on the list.  A bid retraction disrupts their auction and sometimes deprives a seller from making a sale to a serious bidder.