Bid Retractions

[buymycards]

Originally Posted by Thromdog

Been wanting to answer this one and saw an opportunity with Ed's question.

Unfortunately bidding through your phone doesn't do a confirmation before placing the bid. Anyone who texts frequently knows that you go through the motions and continue on.....fast. Unfortunately I don't press the decimal sometimes and then I have to retract a bid. For those who haven't retracted bids, I will add that this is a valid reason for a bid retraction by eBay rules if outside of 12 hours of auction end. Plus if you still want to bid on the auction, your minimum bid has to be equal to your retracted bid.......so basically you are out of the auction.

There's more to it than a bid retraction.

Sorry, but that is BS. I use my phone, with the ebay app, quite a lot. When you type in the amount of your bid, there is a fat blue bar across the screen that says "confirm bid". You cannot place your bid unless you confirm it.

[oldjudge]

If this is what's happening, I can't believe you guys actually deal with these people. You get what you deserve.

[jefferyepayne]

eBay doesn't care. PWCC doesn't care. Sellers don't care.

Unfortunately its up to buyers to put their foot down and take a stand. STOP bidding on any auction where a bidder has >5 retractions. STOP bidding on any auction for a high end item where a bidder has <10 feedbacks.

That's what I've started doing. I am suspicious of anyone with numerous retractions and no history on ebay when it comes to high end cards. The only way consignments slow down / stop is if bidders stop bidding ...

jeff

[Yoda]

Any way you slice it, PWCC has become, thanks to Ebay, a major auction house in a short period of time and a money machine.

[Thromdog]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Sorry, but that is BS. I use my phone, with the ebay app, quite a lot. When you type in the amount of your bid, there is a fat blue bar across the screen that says "confirm bid". You cannot place your bid unless you confirm it.

Sorry but disagree.

It's all in 1 motion and not really a confirmation, so it's prone to error. You can literally place a bid and submit in a half a second.

When you bid on a desktop you enter an amount and click enter. Then a confirmation message is displayed and you confirm. I also checked through my phone by going to a browser and bidding through eBay's mobile site. Same thing, 2 screens. You enter your bid and click Place Bid.....which is the same as the confirm bid bar you are seeing on the mobile app. Then it takes you to the next screen which shows your bid and you click confirm.....which is not in the app.

Not the same user experience.

Even with auction houses it's the same thing, you enter your amount and click return. Then a true confirmation page appears and you click submit. The extra step prevents user error and it's a pretty common design retailers use.

[PhillipAbbott79]

Does it actually require 2 separate clicks? If so, it is 2 motions. Is your complaint then just that you do not have a new screen to do those 2 motions on?

I don't make mistakes like this but I will be the first to tell you that my cracked phone screen does weird things from time to time.

No offense meant here, but where do you live. I am moving there.

I will also say:

• Nothing ever gets done on the first shot
• No one ever follows up with you about anything
• Nobody ever does what they say they are going to
• I always get someone with pine tar thick accents
• Whatever needs to be done by a specific date, never is
• If something needs to be perfect in quality, it never is

Any time solving a problem requires any off the beaten path type of action on my part, involves anyone other than myself or worse an off the beaten path action needed to be done by someone else, I have this immediate acceptance to the fact it will be a nightmare that consumes 1 to dozens of hours of my life.

I can't even get the furniture people to come out within a 9 week time frame to fix my new furniture.

A bid retraction, just 1 of them, would be a logistical nightmare in my life. 5 phone calls, 8 emails, 3 more follow ups, a correction or two. I can't imagine having to try to attempt a retraction, let alone do many. It would probably be cheaper and easier for me to get a whole new phone for 300 to 600 dollars than to deal with correcting it.

Again, no offense meant, but seriously, is your residence earthly?