eBay bid retractions

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by chriskim

...and many netural feedbacks from other sellers...

I didn't realize sellers could leave neutral feedback. For a while now, sellers could only leave a positive or report the buyer. Has eBay changed this as well?

[philliesfan]

If the buyer want to retract a bid and is not allowed by the seller, the buyer can pay, claim item not as described, request return and leave negative feedback.
So what does this new policy accomplish
Thanks,
Bob

[MikeGarcia]

can you say the the buyer sent back an empty envelope ?

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[philliesfan]

can you say the the buyer sent back an empty envelope ?

Sure I guess so. But ebay always sides with the seller don't they?

[swarmee]

So the guys on Blowout have mentioned that this should at least minimize the risk of "bid shielding", the process where an expensive item can be won cheaply by two bidders colluding with each other. For example, a $1000 has an initial bid of $100. Bidder B bids $2500 on it. Bidder C bids $2600 on it. At the close of the auction, bidder B retracts their $2500 bid, and Bidder C has the leading bid with only a $105 bid (one increment over the initial bid). Time runs out on the auction.
I don't think it's a widespread problem, but I have read about it happening a lot more with the basketball snearkerboi price runup over the past year or two.

But my real question is, "Why just the sportscard category?" Guess all those ice cream collector shill bidders can still retract, right?

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by swarmee

But my real question is, "Why just the sportscard category?"

This was my initial reaction was well. It's a change for the better, but what justification could there be for a basic bidding policy to be limited to certain categories?

[chriskim]

Originally Posted by Eric72

I didn't realize sellers could leave neutral feedback. For a while now, sellers could only leave a positive or report the buyer. Has eBay changed this as well?

Sorry.. my bad. They were "positive" feedbacks but with "negative" contents. LOL

This means the feedback rating is completely useless since sellers want to express their feelings but have to leave them as "positive" feedbacks.

BTW, that buyer was "braqwaku99"

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[swarmee]

We usually call those "false positives" and those are actually against ebay policy and can be erased and the sellers reprimanded if the buyer brings them up to ebay...
Better to open cases properly (back when you did) and have them hit with a NPB (non- paying bidder) strike, because sellers could then restrict to buyers with minimal NPBs on their record. Of course, bidders can make a bunch of accounts, which ebay also allows.
They are masters at attempting to do stuff, while not actually solving any problems.

And their sports card optimization changes they made last week were just terrible changes for no reason. They broke things which were working properly just because they could.