Will a bidder get docked for Retracting bids on multiple items of mine?

[clarkchejoan]

I had 2 similar items in the same category and one bidder bid them both up within 30 minutes of listing.  It was him and one other bidder.  No further bids for days and then I get email(s) saying that he wanted me to cancel both bids.  This was after 5 days and the price was more than I expected to get, or close to what I was expecting.  So any potential bidder would had seen such a high price and decided not to bid and move along.

 I did not reply to him for those exact reasons and he has 4000 feedback with no negatives so he must know the rules.  After retracting the bid one one auction 2 days ago he/she cancelled the other one today.  Will they get docked for this or does the fact that I did not reply to him give them free reign to retract their bids with no consequence?  I usually would had done it but like I said they bid on multiple items, ran the price up, and then pulled that stunt.

thanks in advance.

[castlemagicmemories]

And as previously suggested, put these ids on your BBL.

[7606dennis]

Actually, retractions should never be allowed in my opinion.  However, eBay permits them for three reasons which they feel are valid.  There use to be a way to report invalid retractions but eBay has for some time, made it nearly impossible for sellers to file such reports.  They have also been extremely lax in their enforcement of their own policies.

In the situation you describe, I would put the retracting bidder on my BBL, cancel any and all bids that they placed on this and any other of my auctions already.  I would check the other bidder's retraction record and if there were more than one retraction on it, I would do the same thing to them.  If the auction hasn't already ended and the retractions dropped the price down to near the starting bid, I'd probably wait until near the end and cancel all bids and let the auction close without a winner.  Of course, this can be risky because someone can snipe and the item would most likely sell for the starting bid price.

By the way, bid shielding is a form of price fixing and as such violates the Sherman Anti Trust Act.  The penalties for this federal offense is quite hefty in prison time, fines and/or both.