Bidn retractions and a supposedly good buyer

[dutchman48]

What would you think of a buyer that has over 80 bid retractions in the last 30 days and over 500 for the last 6 months?

Why doesn't Ebay stop this kind of garbage from Buyers. How many do they have to have before Ebay bans them from bidding and kicks them off the site.

They bid, find out they are the high bidder and then retract their bid.

Anyone else looking at the bid history can see what their high bid was and it really messes up the auctions. Why are they allowed to bid and retract twice on the same auction which they have done as well.

No poll but comments are appreciated

[dutchman48]

Title should be bid retractions.

[toby_le_pue]

This subject was brought up at the weekly ebay meeting on this board this week.

Read posts  3,  7,, and 16

http://community.ebay.ca/topic/Weekly-Board-Hour/May-15th-Weekly/3000009540

[dutchman48]

In other words, Ebay basically does nothing. With all the teckies making a mess, someone should be able to design a program to pick up buyers like this and give them a suspension for a certain number of retractions in a specific time frame for the first violation and if they persist in doing it, ban them from Ebay as a buyer and seller along with any other ID's they have.

That way programmers would be earning their dollars and these types of buyers would be gone.

[toby_le_pue]

If no one reports them nothing is done.

[Anonymous]

The weekly Board Hour Session is now becoming very annoying because there are way too much evading or vague by eBay where they don't give real clear answers or don't give answers to specific questions like bid retractions, saying "will look at this buyer".  What about the general bid retractions, not just "this buyer"??!!  

We WANTED VERY CLEAR ANSWERs like telling us how many bid retractions any buyers are allowed and when it is too much and would they be suspended or what.  VERY CLEAR ANSWERS, please eBay!!!!   No more vague or evading to any questions from now now, eBay!! 

We are now seeing way too much buyers doing bid retractions more than ever.  I remembered about 3-4 years ago when I did 3 bid retractions and BAM!, I got email saying that I am restricted to not be able to bid for 30 days!!  And now I am seeing some buyers have way more than 3 like 100, 200, 500 lately!  So what is going on???!!!  Has eBay become very lazy or become more greedy and closed their eyes and allow this behavoir.

Believe me when I say that eBay is in conflict of interest regarding many of their own policies, preaching many insane, not making senses policies to us and here we have eBay breaking their own policies and often in conflict of interest!!

eBay needs to clean their house and have many heads rolling staring like now!!

As for the weekly Board Hour Session, you can see that they are evading in answering to one question regarding the Global Shipping Program.

[recped]

What would you think of a buyer that has over 80 bid retractions in the last 30 days and over 500 for the last 6 months?

Is that 80 retractions vs 8000 purchases, 800 purchases, or 80 purchases?

Most of the time a bid retraction is a lot better than ending up with a non-paying bidder.

I'm not clear on how a retraction messes up the Auction?

[gifts_of_elegance]

They are just tame little lambs, compared to purchasers who refuse an item that has been shipped half way around the world to them and turn around and claim `non-receipt`.  Even worse is their postal system that does not return the item but holds auctions to sell them off.  Then there are those that accept the item and still claim `non-receipt` and a refund.

These were the people I used to give negative feedback, to warn other sellers, but now their reputation is protected.  

[femmefan1946]

I agree, gifts. I believe Bid Retractions show on the bidder's feedback page which is a help to those sellers who follow bids on their auctions. If the bidder has a poor track record, the seller can cancel and Block the bidder without consequence.

Some of these multiple retractors may be shilling. And actually when we hear of tens of retractions, shilling  becomes an easy explanation.

http://ocsnext.ebay.ca/ocs/cuhome?

[kalvin@ebay.com]

Hi everyone,

I've re-reported this member to our Trust & Safety team - not sure what the conclusion will be, but I'm having someone take a closer look.

Thanks,