Retraction accepted at the moment auction ended | Buying

silresiste · 2023-02-15T02:36:22.333000Z

TIL I learned that a bid can be retracted at exactly the same time the auction ends. I was keeping tabs on a computer, and intended to bid in the dying moments of the auction. Two hours before the end of the auction, someone doubled the bid to $3,500, only to retract it an hour later. An hour (or 59 minutes to be precise) before the auction ended, the same bidder once again increased their bid by more than $1,250, for a total amounting to nearly $3,100 – way out of my budget. The bid was retracted again, but this time the retraction took place at exactly the same time the auction ended. This really does not strike me as fair, and it is unfortunate such practices would be allowed, particularly when you look deeper into the history of the bidder who retracted the bid. The person made 21 retractions over the past 12 months. One would have hoped that eBay would clamp down on such practices.

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