posted on September 28, 2007 03:32:02 PM new
why does a buyer ask you to cancel there bids with less than 12 hours when they started bidding at like 3 hours to go. Then he bid on the item twice.
sorry my mind doesn't work like these folks.
What gives with this?
posted on September 28, 2007 03:48:15 PM new
He may have typed in an incorrect amount - $300 instead of $30. European bidders seem to have trouble getting the hang of our decimal point.
posted on September 29, 2007 12:05:40 PM new
Here is the sad part. If you don't cancel the bid, they won't pay anyway. You are better off dumping their bid, then blocking them from re-bidding.
posted on September 29, 2007 12:24:19 PM new
Someone was shocked to find they were the high bidder on one of my listings, at a price much higher than they wanted to pay (they mistakenly added an extra zero to their high bid). They asked me cancel their bid, I did. They went back in and bid just under what they now knew was the top bid by the second bidder. I was worried about getting nailed for collusion - even though I didn't ask them to rebid. It all worked out fine and I got a good price for the postcard.
