Bid shielding scamming members to block

[blackbears86]

ebay could do their part by limiting the number of bid retractions per account, but they don't.

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by deujr61

As well as the above, timing is also important when retracting a bid:

• If there are 12 hours or more left before the listing ends, all of your bids can be retracted
• If the listing is ending in less than 12 hours, you can retract your most recent bid if it's been less than an hour since you placed it

This seems like an easy solve for eBay, just don't allow retractions for any reason in last 12-24 hours.

eBay also doesn't monitor habitual bid retractors. One bid on an auction of mine to see what the highest price of the 2nd bidder was (48 hours before auction ended), then retracted. This account has positive feedback in the thousands positive but had over 2600 bid retractions in past 12-months. Reported the account and eBay did nothing.

This is why I've moved to mostly BIN based listings.

[NYRE2PECT]

Originally Posted by hotcalsun

This seems like an easy solve for eBay, just don't allow retractions for any reason in last 12-24 hours.

eBay also doesn't monitor habitual bid retractors. One bid on an auction of mine to see what the highest price of the 2nd bidder was (48 hours before auction ended), then retracted. This account has positive feedback in the thousands positive but had over 2600 bid retractions in past 12-months. Reported the account and eBay did nothing.

This is why I've moved to mostly BIN based listings.

Oooooh, that's scummy.

[mkejacques]

Originally Posted by thenwhatjk

Had you noticed your Kellenic was way too high before it had happened?

I wasn't paying attention to the auction because I was out with the family. It had happened within the final hour of the auction.