Bid retraction minutes before end?

[zemmix]

I was selling this on ebay: (Gunbird 2, Dreamcast)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220363989057


Edit: Actually I was thinking about the wrong game. According to the history the retracted bid was only $13 so not much change anyway. I still wonder why it sold for so much less than the other Gunbird 2's did though.

[c0ldb33r]

I thought ebay's policy was that you could only retract your bid if there was clearly an error in your bid, for instance you meant to bid $10.00 and accidentally put in $1000.

Does anyone know - is this enforced? Otherwise it's BS.

[ProgrammingAce]

I had a friend who was able to bid and retract whenever he wanted. He would bid something stuipdly high just to see what other people were willing to pay, then retract. He never told me how he did it...

[Vectorman0]

I had a friend who was able to bid and retract whenever he wanted. He would bid something stuipdly high just to see what other people were willing to pay, then retract. He never told me how he did it...

Maybe he knew some ancient html that still worked from when ebay would let you retract bids whenever for whatever reason you wanted?

[eugenek]

I thought ebay's policy was that you could only retract your bid if there was clearly an error in your bid, for instance you meant to bid $10.00 and accidentally put in $1000.

Does anyone know - is this enforced? Otherwise it's BS.

I think you can always retract a bid (outside of the final 12 hours) just by claiming that it was an error. Their rules say you have to place a new bid, but I've definitely run auctions where a buyer cited that reason but then never placed another bid. That was a while ago though, and I don't know if that has changed, but it's a joke if it still is.

[megasdkirby]

Maybe he knew some ancient html that still worked from when ebay would let you retract bids whenever for whatever reason you wanted?

I remember doing that.

Last time I did was when an Ebay seller, Bonacoursi or something, sold SMS games. He had Legend of Illusion and I was interested in picking it up. I placed an insanely high bid...found out it was reaching the $700 mark!

I was like "WTF?"

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well what you could do is tell us who that douchebag is so we can ban him from our auctions. :P

[RASK1904]

I don't know if this is what happend to me a few days ago but... I was bidding on Wacky Racers for the DC and it was up at ? 9 or 10 bucks and I couldn't decide if I wanted to raise my bid. I did, so I bid higher. Then the next day the bid was at .99??? I asked the seller what happend. If the other guy found something was wrong with the auction or what. He wrote back that there had been no bid retractions? I was like what the f? So now I had put more than I wanted on a game and it went back to .99? Eventualy I did lose anyway but it was weird. And now hearing this is starting to make me wonder?