18 Feb 2008 04:53:04 | Jay Bauder
As the old adage goes, nobody's perfect. There are things in
this life that people do on one instance only to change his or
her mind after a few minutes or so.
On eBay, there are instances wherein online shoppers or bidders
may find retracting a bid inevitable due to some unforeseen
circumstances. Others find it tricky and sellers may find it
maddening. But whatever the point is, buyers may still retract
their bids even if they won the item.
As much as the seller would be professional about the matter,
buyers should also, by all means, do the most civilized thing to
do - inform the seller about the reason why he or she would not
push through with the sale.
However, buyers may also do this legally, that is in accordance
to the eBay policies. Buyers may declare a "clear error"
especially when there were things done inadvertently. For
example, the bidder mistakenly typed $100 instead of $10.
When things like these happened, the buyer has to make
appropriate actions at once. All they have to do is to tick the
"Services" link situated on top of the navigation bar. On
services, the buyer should tap the "Retract Your Bid" link found
on the "Bidding and Buying Services" section. The item number
should be placed on the space provided in the Bid Retractions
page.
Automated explanations are available and can be used by the
bidder. Then, after the buyer had clicked on the "Retract Bid"
tab, the bid amount will be deleted from the auction.
The eBay management, in reality, is reasonable on things like
these. In fact, eBay may accept whatever reasons buyers have
whenever they want to pull back a certain bid. But then, it may
pose harm on the bidder's reputation in the future.
This can be tolerable especially if the reasons are valid, but
nevertheless, it's still a big no-no when doing business on
eBay. In the first place, it was clearly stated on the buyer's
guide that the bid serves as a contract that binds the buyer to
a commitment to make the necessary purchase of the item he or
she had won.
What's more, bidders may even lose the credibility and the
chance to bid at some point especially if their bidding history
were made known to most sellers.
Indeed, retracting bids on eBay is not such a good practice to
make, and can be a hard habit to break.
All of these things boil down on one common point. That is, the
buyer should never bid on an item if he or she is not yet even
sure of buying it.
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