churchman ruth ebay auction

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by glchen

I'm not saying this auction isn't legit, but I was tracking/bidding on another card by this seller, the 1934 Quaker Oats Premium here: Link

The weird thing about this Quaker Oats auction was that I put in a snipe of ~$1000 for this card. A few days into the auction, the bids went above my snipe, so I got an email from Gixen that I was outbid. Then the next day, the bids mysteriously dropped under my $1000 snipe again. However, when I looked at the bidding history, there were no retractions. Then 1-2 days later, the bids again went over my $1000 snipe. And then the next day it was below $1000 again. On the final day, it went above $1000 permanently and ended where at the final price.

It seemed to me as if the seller was trying to find out the max bids from the bidders, but then there again, there were no retractions listed, so I have no idea what was going on. Maybe it was an ebay technical issue, but it still seemed weird to me.

If the seller cancels a bid does that count as a retraction?

[npa589]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

If the seller cancels a bid does that count as a retraction?

I had this happen to me as well on an auction a while back. Clearly fraudulent. Apparently it's a big loophole in eBay's auctions. When it happened to me, I then asked the seller to cancel my bids, and he refused. I contacted eBay, whose advice was to let it run its course, and to not pay if I win. They said they would remove the unpaid item strike after a week or so. I spent hours on eBay chat trying to figure this out - and in the meantime uncovered around 5 ids that this moron used to shill his auctions.

[Exhibitman]

Well, I think vintage card collectors are savvy enough to understand when a card depicts Ruth, even if it isn't labeled. Examples are priced accordingly.