topic Re: Retracted Bids? in Buying

Retracted Bids?

mollycrownmolly — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:06:41 GMT

Hey everyone 😄

Just looking at an item and its bidding record, and noticed that while it says 20 bids from 8 bidders, it also says the item has 803 retracted bids.

Does that mean what I think it does? That 803 bids have been removed? Haha I'm so confused 😛

If anyone can please shed some light on this, my curiosity will thank you!

Re: Retracted Bids?

harley_babes_hoard — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:04:56 GMT

what's the item number

Re: Retracted Bids?

mollycrownmolly — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:08:53 GMT

It's 281668697184

Oh, and the retracted bids only show up on the ebay app on my phone, not when using my laptop.

Re: Retracted Bids?

lyndal1838 — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:59:38 GMT

There are no bid retractions that I can see on that listing but be aware that the same item "sold" on 20/4 and no feedback has been left.

Re: Retracted Bids?

bakeandfry — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:44:29 GMT

Had a look, its now sitting at 797 bid retractions

Re: Retracted Bids?

go-tazz — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:36:26 GMT

Try bidder 8***a

30-Day Summary
Total bids:	511
Items bid on:	320
Bid activity (%) with this seller:	0%
Bid retractions:	796
Bid retractions (6 months):	1632

Re: Retracted Bids?

springyzone — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:14:22 GMT

Good grief. Over 1600 retractions in only 6 months.

That would be like a full time job.

Re: Retracted Bids?

padi*0409 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 04:27:30 GMT

T & S falling asleep on the job yet again Taz, these serial bid retractors should have an automatic flag on their account (and their ISP) and be booted off eBay when this happens IMHO, it can't be that hard to put a system in place that automatically alerts eBay to this abuse of the bidding process.

Re: Retracted Bids?

lyndal1838 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:27:34 GMT

@go-tazz wrote:
Try bidder 8***a

30-Day Summary
Total bids: 511
Items bid on: 320
Bid activity (%) with this seller: 0%
Bid retractions: 796
Bid retractions (6 months): 1632

Oh good grief....how did I miss that? Thanks Tazz.

How could anyone post that many bids in order to retract them? Definitly a full time job.

Re: Retracted Bids?

bakeandfry — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:05:55 GMT

Its now got less bid retractions??

Re: Retracted Bids?

go-tazz — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:03:36 GMT

That bidder has disappeared from the bidding history so they have being NARU'd,

Re: Retracted Bids?

padi*0409 — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:19:27 GMT

And so they should be Taz, but as I said before how come an automatic alert doesn't come up on eBay's system to shut these mongrels down well before it gets to the stage this one did.

Probably lucky the "buyer" is NARU'd so quickly, I had one of these doing their auction manipulation on one of my US seller's auctions and it took over 2 months to get them shut down, admittedly the retractions weren't quite as high as this one - but they weren't very far off it.