Administrative Cancellation ????

[iainlouden]

What or why is an Administrative Cancellation on a bid I made that was outbid anyway ?

I bid so I could get the phone number of the seller and as I suspected the phone number is a fake....and it is a fake !.

Would it be cause I have a paypal claim going against another seller who also had a fake phone number ?

Can I bid on anything while this claim is being processed?

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[putney32]

has ebay perhaps cancelled the sellers auctions, or even cancelled the sellers account altogether?  click on his f/back number and next to his id it may say

No Longer aRegistered User

(aka...seller is NARU)

[iainlouden]

Nope the seller is still registered and the other bids are still standing...someone's going to get burnt by this auction.

I will phone Ebay in the morning and let them know about this auction and another with a fake phone number and ask why they cancelled my bid.

And I was wrong..I was the highest bidder on this item...I was outbid on another item I believe to be a fraud.

[the3coopers]

You need to be extremely careful with what you ae doing, because you are actually breaking eBay User Agreement yourself if you bid with no intention to purchase.

It's no use having good intentions if you end up getting yourself banned rather than the scammers.

[davewil1964]

So you bid on auctions that you have no intention of paying for?

I believe that is called auction bombing and it is a big no-no.

[phorum_junkie*]

Sounds to me as if the seller knows what you are up to and has cancelled your bids.

If you think an item is fake you have every right to report it but you have no right to bid just so you can request contact details.

I should imagine you will be on a lot of BBLs now.

[iainlouden]

I don't bid on anything unless I want it and am prepared to pay for it.

If I had won the auction I would have paid and I would have opened any package in front of my local Post Office manager who would verify the contents.

I thought I would be outbid anyway as the price was getting close to the max i would pay for that item , but I don't bid unless I'm prepared to pay for any item I win...and when I pay I expect to receive exactly what I paid for...if the phone number had checked out I would have continued to bid up to what I think the item is worth so don't go making assumptions about my motives unless you are happy to be wrong.:-D

I check the phone numbers for some items I bid on at auction if there is no feedback history and the cost is above a certain amount of $...If no one bought from a zero feedbacker then we would all have zero feedback as sellers cause we all started with zero as sellers... if the phone numbers were verified by Ebay when people registered it would cut out a lot of scammers.

I have had buyers phone me in the past to check or to ask a question and I have never had a problem with them doing that and no one I have ever phoned has had a problem with me doing that...usually it ends up in a great chat about a common interest in the items involved.

[phorum_junkie*]

When you request contact details the seller also gets an email with your details, they probably cancelled your bid as soon as they got that email.

You can report them for invalid contact info but you have absolutely no reason to take any action other than that.

[the3coopers]

Iif the phone numbers were verified by Ebay when people registered it would cut out a lot of scammers.

The phone numbers ARE verified - I just went through this recently when I registered this (posting) ID as a selling account, plus when I upgraded my Store from Basic to Featured.

But they don't check whether the phone number matches the person (eg: whitepages), only that the phone number exists and that the person can hear a 4 digit code that's read out (which you then have to type into the registration webpage)