CDTV-II up for auction @ $0.01 with no reserve!

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weirdami wrote:

redrumloa wrote:
eBay user 0ldsk00lgamer is now added to my blocked buyers list. High bids retraced within 24 hours of auction close rewards you with a ban :furious:

I didn't know you could retract a bid. That's lame. That's unauctionlike. :-( :madashell: I know that one time I bid on something and decided later that I really didn't want it, but I just hoped that someone would outbid me. I was glad that someone eventually did, but I would have paid for it anyway if they hadn't because that's how an auction works.

I dont see what the problem is? If eBay provides a mechanism for retracting bids, whats the problem? And red, does it warrant a post here just to tell all and sundry that this particular eBayer has joined your block list??

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dannyp1 wrote:
Yeah, I see a problem with bidding and then retracting.  If nothing else it violates the spirit of an auction.  Many people could look at an item and decide the price was already too high for them and not look again at the item.  Later bids are retracted which changes the price but the lower price may not be seen by people who have already bypassed the item.  I truly believe the system to retract bids is there for honest mistakes such as bidding $2000 instead of $200, or mistype and put a comma in the number instead of a period to seperate dollars and cents and see what happens.  I did that once.  It is not a wrong amount entered, as most people use for a reason, when you retract the bid and don't enter another one.  If you don't think EBay frowns on retractions go read the retraction guidelines.

Dan    :madashell:

Maybe thats why the bid was retracted, all we know is that *the ban* is mentioned here for some reason but I agree in principle that is why the mechanism exists.