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@lane-ends wrote:

If there was a request cancel transaction option from buyer, without having to ask seller directly, you would see an enormous increase in requests to cancel. Not good for sellers nor Ebay. Having to ask seller to initiate will make many think twice about it first.

 

 

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The function is available on another site, but it remains that only a seller can actually cancel a transaction, and having been selling there for around 4 months (not long at all I know), but with reading the forums on a daily basis to get an idea of the general climate / ethos of the site, the instances where a cancellation request causes complaint is very low. Granted, there are no auctions there, so no impulse bidding to an unaffordable point etc, and probably less chance a buyer will continue to 'shop' until they find something cheaper, but I still think - like bid retractions - that here it has the potential to solve more problems than it causes; there's already a couple of ways discussed how it could help sellers, but maybe there'd be less 8+day UPI cases because a buyer would feel more comfortable clicking a button to request a cancellation than sending a message to say 'I can't pay'.