posted on May 14, 2000 11:11:14 AM new
Put my first auction on Yahoo. I got an email from a potential bidder who wanted to know how much s&h would be on the item. I email back with 2 options for s&h. The bidder emailed me again & said they had bid on the item, but couldn't afford it at this time & wanted me to remove them from the bid. I checked their rating & they have only bid on one other auction with a good rating. My question is how do I unlist someone as a bidder? Shouldn't they have to do that? and, should I give this bidder a bad rating? Thanks for any help, suggestions, and/or advise.
posted on May 14, 2000 12:53:44 PM new
Users on yahoo cant retract bids like they can on ebay there only hope is to ask the sell to remove there bid I dont think there is a way to do this either but try clicking on manage this auction and see if you can retract there bid dont cancel the auction if you do this you lose one rateing your self if you have 0 rateing now it will give you a -1 if you close with there bid it makes then the winner on close.
if you cant find an option on manage to remove there bid click on bid history for that sale and see if the remove bid is there.
but if you want to neg then for this you will have to let the auction run it coarse to neg them at the end pray for more then one bid and then they will be off the hook.
I would let the auction ride out send then the EOA see if they still say they can pay you then neg them for none payment.
you cant give feed back on a buyer at all while the auction is still running feed back is transaction related.
posted on May 21, 2000 02:42:06 AM new
I wouldn't give them a negative feedback.
Bidders have no way of backing out on Yahoo, and they were nice enough to let you know early in the auction that they couldn't buy it.
Just click "manage this auction" and cancel their bid. If you leave their bid in place, someone else who would pay their bid amount (but no more) might decide not to bid, and you could lose the chance to sell to someone else.
