How do I retract a bid on Ebay?

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

What if you're a seller and you have to deal with this dipsh*t behavior. As I've explained before, a lot of the time it isn't even a shilling situation. It's a bidding strategy to sabotage an auction.

Hell, even in non-retraction situations it's getting ridiculous out there. I had an item up several weeks ago that I'm convinced two bidders drove up to a very high level, with zero intention to pay, in order to drive up the realized price of something they already had in their collection.

Within a short time of the auction closing, both the first and second high bidders start trying to negotiate with me to sell them the piece at a fraction of what they originally bid on the item. I filed a non-paying strike and blocked the high bidder. I doubt there were any consequences to him however.

Meanwhile, I have two of the exact same item in the ended auction listings on Ebay, with two very different results, and to anybody doing the research, I'm probably the one who looks like the bad guy here.

There are zero repercussions for buyers with bad intentions.

understand....the seller better chance to get screwed on ebay, the buyer more chance to get screwed off ebay with better chance of shilling due to having zero information on who is bidding....sellers that have their cards shilled don't complain, its the buyers..

I do think ebay is tougher on buyers that don't pay then sellers doing all the questionable stuff that has long been discussed... of course buyers can start more and more new accounts..but we can block buyers on ebay with less than x amount of feedback