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... you win a car on ebay due to a last minute bid retraction?? £1500, even though I've just bought a snot green CRX as a stop gap in a hurry,as I had been outbid for the mk1. 
£1000 but then forgot about it until I got a notification earlier today.£1650 and £1600... makes you wonder if it wasn't a setup by the sellers friends... but anyway... unfortunately a bid is a bid on ebay£1250 for it mr2mk1chick wrote:I would send an email explaing the story as you've told us I think.
Hopefully you won't be in too much strife.
Ideally, you know, you shouldn't have a CRX over a MK1
linky to your new buy?
- a couple of weeks ago I was trying to buy an SC so advertised my mk1 and it sold in three days, then the SC wasn't available anymore hence the CRX - 2-seater, bulletproof engines, no rust issues made it very easy to buy online and collect. Pity the engines in the wrong place - keep lifting the boot expecting to see a 4age I know which one you mean.
Although I recently got an exellent sub 60k mile one, that one looked really good and I gave it a go up to
I see that 2 bids were retracted at
on the other hand, sellers can't leave neutral or neg feedback these days although they can still file non paying bidder claims
anyway, I'll give you
- it looks like shill bidding to me, and have contacted the vendor explaining my purchase after being outbid (I really thoguht it would have gone for more), and that its not wanted. Wow never thought I'd say that 
only concern is clutch replaced already but still..... seems like a real bargain if everything written is correctHT wrote:
Just been informed of winnign a 77k mk1 for the princely sum of
Anyone want a car!!
- both bids cancelled in the last couple of minutes of the auction, the last one cancelled with only 8 seconds to go ? oh come on, who's going to leave it so late to realise they don't want the car ? If 2 others have retracted their bids, and he's agreed (it says mutual agreement) then he won't mind if yours is retracted as well. And you'll hear no more about it.b2hbm wrote:Hi,
Assuming it's that red Mk1 Tbar and if you don't want it, just tell the owner so.
I was also watching that one but dislike the private listing auctions simply because it's so open to fraud and I decided not to bid in the end.
And this looks very much like schill bidding to me
Personally I'd say you don't want it and mention you are complaining to Ebay about the bidding.
"shill" bidding going on of course you winning bid is what you decided it was worth- Rules are rules, sure but three mins to go the vendor says he has accepted the reasons for cancellation as 'unforeseen circumstances'. The item had a cancellation 3 days before - this morning I have just received the last cancellation notice. - Now reading the listing further I think he is a motor dealer, he certainly doesn't appear to have actually run the car himself. The auction description is very generalised or in the third person.- Worse then that an unregistered private trader, who wants his fees back - hence I have reported him for suspected shill bidding. Its interesting that we all have to rely on ebay as the identities aren't disclosed. Also its 77k its hardly low mileage this its just as old as the rest of them. I think the description is a tad upbeat, unlike my own recent sale via classified ads on fleabay which consisted of a couple of paragraphs and not all the generalised flim-flam, and guff most traders tend to use (I can it the arthur daley syndrome). £1500 then that is the price they are prepared to pay for the car regardless of wether someone else bids it up or not.....i dont see what the problem is? You wanted to pay £1500 for it and you won?.. so you never pay more than you wanted to regardless of who bids.Its also very hard on the seller if he has had two genuine bid retractions and now the winning bidder doesnt want it.(unless the item is not as described),if you didn't want to buy at that price then why did you enter it in the first place?
caveat emptor!!
PW@Woodsport wrote:On the otherhand if a buyer enters a bid of
Shill bidding is a fact of ebay life,it will always go on,thats what the maximum bid option is for.
If you bid you buy in my book
kevin..in wrote:
it does seem like
PW@Woodsport wrote:On the otherhand if a buyer enters a bid of
"ebay" life 
Read the rest of the thread Paul.
....don't see a problem,you are paying what you wanted to pay regardless of how it got to that price.PW@Woodsport wrote:Read the rest of the thread Paul.
I did.
You bid,you won.
Yeah kevin i agree shill bidding is totally wrong,but i think its impossible to stop it happening,i think its always going to happen so in my opinion its best to accept it goes on and just stick to your highest bid as ulitmately that's what you are prepared to pay.
PW@Woodsport wrote:On the otherhand if a buyer enters a bid of
Shill bidding is a fact of ebay life,it will always go on,thats what the maximum bid option is for.
If you bid you buy in my book
And if the seller is honest, then it is hard on them. But of course he still has the car and can re-list it for free with a non-paying bidder. And looking at the auction bids there is one other bid at £1500 as well - so he can make a second chance offer there, can't he ?- shill bidding is dishonest, and I'm with HT on this one. If you look at the bidding it jumped from just over £1100 to £1500, which makes me wonder if the previous £1500 bid is also a shill bid. I have good reason to want to see this practice stopped by Ebay, and they CAN do so, it's not difficult for them. Until I did the HPI I was prepared to buy the car because I considered that despite the bidding it was a fair price (£2050, V reg puma). "private bid" just before the auction closed. However once I confronted them with the HPI report it ended up with them ringing me up the next day and offering me "compensation" to go away. (which I refused, but I did accept the cost of the HPI) This week the same seller re-listed the car and I had emails from 2 prospective bidders asking why I didn't buy the car in May. I told them the tale and we all watched as the auction went exactly the same way - but this time instead of £2050 I bid it only went for £1391.... and the seller won it..... I only wish I had done the same in May.b2hbm wrote:
Well done HT for reporting it.
"the community" could not take place and unsuspecting buyers get duped into buying dodgy lots 
...£1100 but your max is £1500 and someone comes in and bids £1500+ and retracts thier bid it should automatically default back to the £1100. Effectivly ignoring that the retacted bid ever happend. Yes its not right but there is absolutly Jack you can really do about it.