Cancelling an ebay bid

[garth]

Hey

I bid on something on ebay and contacted the seller to tell him to cancel my bid, as I bid on the wrong thing. ( I got my brother to bid on a bike - theres two of them and he picked the wrong one...)

Now he's replied with

[Mudskipper]

Email him, copying ebay in, explaining everything and requesting he cancel your bid, quoting the ebay regs.

Then at least there is some 'written' proof. Do it asap.

edit: He's a lying cunt, ebay DOES allow the seller to cancel bids, I've done it before and it takes 2 minutes.
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[Jefr0]

Or make another account and outbid yourself? If it's easy enough to do?
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[Mr.Everready]

Why people keep claiming that a bid is legally binding I don't know. Tell him you will not be paying if you are the highest bidder and that your high bid may put others off bidding.
worst that can happen is that you get a negative feedback, and he will get his fees back.
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[Kwaks]

Can you not cancel the bid yourself?
I know you used to be able to do it, had to once when I stuck an extra zero in.

Prob removed that ability due to people forcing people up to their limits via second accounts
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[garth]

It's all good, he's just this second cancelled it.

Seems like a right royal prick though
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[Mudskipper]

IF you want straighforward BCF vigilante justice, you could post up the item number and I'm sure a BCF-er with a second account/doesn't care about ratings could spam the auction with a million pound bid.

See if he manages to click the 'cancel bid' button THEN.
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[iooi]

[Asharin]

[MaybeGuy]

you can cancel a bid as long as theres more than 12 hours remaining on the auction.

https://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow

also...
link to the auction so we can all boycott the lying cunt.
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith