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niesca2015 · ‎09-14-2015

Someone just cancelled my highest bid for a lot I want. Apparently they can just cancel your bid, and you have no way of leaving negative feedback to point this out. So the seller looks great, but can just manipulate the bidding process. This is not removing an object from bidding, just saying: you can bid, but you can't.

Any possibility to warn others about this through feedback?

00nevermind00 · ‎09-14-2015

There's no transaction, so no feedback to leave.

Besides, there's nothting to "warn" anyone about. Sellers can cancel bids while the auction is stil going on. Did you by any chance bid on an item from a seller who doesn't ship to Canada? Some sellers will delete bids from buyers in countries they don't ship to. Always make sure to check that the seller ships to Canada before you bid. Either that or contact them to ask for permission to bid and wait for their OK before proceeding.

lady.stark · ‎09-15-2015

As 'nevermind' said, it can be because you live in a country where the seller does not ship to.

Or he just doesn't want to sell to newbies with less than "X" feedback. Does he mention something about it in his listing?

reallynicestamps · ‎09-15-2015

Or the dog ate it.

Or he sold it on Kijiji.

Or his child took it to school for show and tell and it came back with chips.

Or he decided he wanted to keep it.

The point is, it belongs to the seller until you buy it.

And you didn't buy it.

niesca2015 · ‎09-22-2015

There was nothing in the description and there were no issues with shipping.

Point is: seller was accepting my bids, and counter bids, ALLLLlllllll the way until a few hours (!) before the auction ended. So person A says 10, I say 15, person A says 20, I say 25, etc. until I say 100 and I was the highest bidder. Then 2 hours before the end we're suddenly going to cancel.

Which means person A now paid 95, instead of say 20, since he/she was bidding effectively against a "ghost" bidder.

Can you see this happening at a real live auction, where you bid against a phone-bidder, going up up up and at the very end the seller says "yeah, I don't like that guy on the phone, so we're just going with the second-highest bid from you". We're just going to leave in the middle (since that doesn't apply here) that the guy on the phone was a buddy from work, helping to drive the price up.

pierrelebel · ‎09-22-2015

"Then 2 hours before the end we're suddenly going to cancel."

???

Please provide exact information.

niesca2015 · ‎09-22-2015

What that means is: there was no problem for the entirety of the bidding period, then 2 hours (or so) before the bidding period ends, I get an email from ebay with a cancellation notice.