Eddie Plank ☆ Ebay

[Brent Huigens]

Wanted to quickly chime in on this auction as there was some discussion over a single bidder with a feedback score of 1271.

The bidder in question has eBay ID: d-drodeo

This member is an aggressive participant in the hobby and bids regularly with us, as well as most catalog auction houses.

I want to first be clear that bid retractions are something we absolutely despise and are working very hard with eBay to bring about some changes (hoping to announce some progress on this in the coming weeks).

Some further color on this auction is that after the retractions were issued, I was informed by eBay and they had actually retracted the second bid themselves in response to a prior retraction which was issued by d-drodeo (they also manually removed a bid on a 1954 Banks PSA 8). We have empowered eBay to monitor our auctions and take action if/when impropriety occurs and in this case they acted in response to this users initial retraction which was in violation of policy. eBay us testing some news tools currently and those tools are not yet fully vetted; case in point, it still appears that the retractions occurred at the hand of d-drodeo when they should say 'administrative cancellation' or something similar.

Once the dust settled we reached out to d-drodeo and explained the impropriety of having retracted the first bid. They understood our concern and then agreed to reinstate the first retracted bid at $62,000. They apologized for their actions and said what many people have said before... "I didn't realize it was against the rules".

This is a great example of a system which is flawed. eBay has rules on bid retractions but they don't enforce them and the only way we can educate users on our personal company policies is after that first retraction has been placed. eBay needs to enforce their own rules and we are working with them to accomplish this.

We can also say with confidence that none of the other 9 retractions on d-drodeo's account have been placed with PWCC Auctions, otherwise this matter would have been addressed at an earlier time.

Regards,

Brent Huigens
PWCC Auctions

[swarmee]

Thank you for reaching out to confirm the bids were validated.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Brent Huigens

We can also say with confidence that none of the other 9 retractions on d-drodeo's account have been placed with PWCC Auctions, otherwise this matter would have been addressed at an earlier time.

Regards,

Brent Huigens
PWCC Auctions

Brent, I don't think you checked carefully enough before saying with confidence that none of his prior retractions were with you, it took me all of five minutes to find this looking through your high dollar auctions. Now maybe there is a good explanation for the retraction and it's no big deal but nonetheless your statement above appears to be inaccurate.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...p2047675.l2565

Bid retraction and cancellation history
Bidder Action Date of Bid and Retraction
Member Id: -***o ( 1271Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Retracted: US $16,000.00
Bid: Oct-14-15 18:29:12 PDT
Retracted: Oct-14-15 18:31:04 PDT