There used to be a regular seller who ended his auctions at some random time in the last 5 minutes. He said “I hope this returns the auction process to the person that bids the most money rather than the one with the best sniper program”. In my opinion the bloke was a complete fool who had no understanding of the way eBay works.
Mark,
Are you sure about that ?
As a seller myself, the eBay system prevents withdrawing an item if it has bids and less than 12hours to run (used to be 24hrs).
Ditto with bidding…. if you place a bid a few hours/minutes before i dont think you can retract your bid, maybe someone knows more ?
As an aside, i won something from a French seller, but he wasn’t happy with the price reached (eg: i was the only bidder & it had a low start). When i complained and eBay looked it it, the so called ‘contract’ i entered into was worth diddly squat as apparently a seller has no obligation to actually supply the item and eBay have no power/inclination* (*delete as appropriate) to make him do so.
As this was a dispute between two countries, i’m not sure if that holds up if it where a UK-to-UK transaction, as the law differs in some countrys (eg: privacy laws in Germany prevent requesting a vendors information or even looking at what German eBayers are bidding on)
Cheers………
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