@millienocket wrote:
I understand, but I don't like to push people into buying what they change their minds about.
She could always send it in as a return, which is more trouble than it's worth.
While I understand what you're saying, the time to determine if you want to buy something is before placing a bid on it. The same goes for determining how much you are willing to pay for it. Placing a bid on an item being sold at auction is making a committed offer to buy it for that price if yours is the winning bid. There is a vast difference between an auction and a fixed price retail sale.
In a retail sale of an item listed for a fixed price, the buyer has until they actually commit to buy, there is no bidding to affect the price at which the item is offered to others as there is with an auction. If the buyer decides not to purchase the price of the item is not changed with regard to what the next person can buy it for. This is not so in an auction where the selling price is determined by competitive bidding.
If a potential buyer decides before checkout that they don't wish to buy the item, they simply remove it from their cart and no harm is done. The item has remained available for the same price to anyone else that wanted it the whole time.
Of course, if a buyer has committed to buy, the sale is over, the seller has been charged the site's commission and buyer owes the seller for the purchase. In this case, a UID would be in order, unless the seller is of a generous nature.
Is a return more trouble than it's worth? Assuming that the buyer is honest and the return request is for buyer's remorse, the seller depending upon their chosen return policy, it is an inconvenience. Of course, the seller doesn't have to accept remorse returns if they choose not to do so. However, if the buyer isn't honest and files a false SNAD, well, there is really no way to make a dishonest person into an honest one, is there?
In the case of a bidder requesting that I cancel their bid, depending upon the situation, how long the bid has been in place, how it has affected the other bidding activity and even the bidder's attitude when making the request would determine if I honored the request. Of course, the bidder should realize that they will never again be welcome to bid on another of my items. So in that respect, the results are pretty much the same as if they retracted their bid, failed to pay or any other scenario that causes me any type of headache. Frankly, I sometimes hope that I later list an item that such bidders have been dreaming of all their lives but they can't bid on it because they're blocked. After all, I don't have to be forgiving.
"It is an intelligent man that is aware of his own ignorance."
