How do i handle this situation?? A little help here

[DaProspectKid]

I recently bid on a card that I was trying to win for a customer of mine and a day before the auction ended and even the day I emailed the seller 3x if they could cancel my bid they refused to cancel my bid and I won the card for 4200. After the auction was over I told him I tried to cancel my bid but it wouldn't let me if he could do it. If even emailed me like 10 minutes before auction ended saying if you win and don't pay your getting unpaid item. He sent me some nasty emails about if you can't afford it don't bid on it blah blah. I have no unpaid strikes on my account at all whatsoever and I bough a lot a lot of high end cards. He later relisted the card and sold it for 3700 what are my options here I feel like i let the seller know way in advance and everything he was saying that unpaid item strike will be issued in 3 days enjoy and all this macho man talk. His last email to me was pretty insulting and everything I really wanna negative it would ruin his 100% but I feel like he would try to get back at me some point. Am I in the wrong here i clearly told him 3 times to retract my bid anyone?

 

[BowmanChromeAddict]

How is it possible that you were not able to retract your bid?

 

[bdal23]

If I was the seller I would file a non paying bidder claim. You should have canceled the bid yourself. I don't see how you weren't able to cancel a bid? You can leave a negative but eBay will most likely remove it. I agree with the seller if you couldn't afford to pay you shouldn't have bid. I feel your problem is with you customer who backed out and not the seller

One non paying bidder claim is not a big deal at all.

 

[DaProspectKid]

How is it possible that you were not able to retract your bid?

I thought he would retract it like a normal seller would do. I went in there under 12 hours and It wouldn't let me do it.

 

[Fandruw25]

How is it possible that you were not able to retract your bid?

Can't retract within the last 12 hours of the auction unless it's done within one hour of placing the bid.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-retract.html

 

[DaProspectKid]

All i know is with like 10 minutes he could canceled my bid and just said if you win it and don't pay your getting a strike? Really could he more of a ******? Then the emails he sent were just ridiculous.

 

[isotopes4]

One non paying bidder claim is not a big deal at all.

THIS.

You are a non paying bidder for that item. Take the strike and move on.

 

[fengzhang]

I recently bid on a card that I was trying to win for a customer of mine and a day before the auction ended and even the day I emailed the seller 3x if they could cancel my bid they refused to cancel my bid and I won the card for 4200. After the auction was over I told him I tried to cancel my bid but it wouldn't let me if he could do it. If even emailed me like 10 minutes before auction ended saying if you win and don't pay your getting unpaid item. He sent me some nasty emails about if you can't afford it don't bid on it blah blah. I have no unpaid strikes on my account at all whatsoever and I bough a lot a lot of high end cards. He later relisted the card and sold it for 3700 what are my options here I feel like i let the seller know way in advance and everything he was saying that unpaid item strike will be issued in 3 days enjoy and all this macho man talk. His last email to me was pretty insulting and everything I really wanna negative it would ruin his 100% but I feel like he would try to get back at me some point. Am I in the wrong here i clearly told him 3 times to retract my bid anyone?

So, you didn't really email him a day before the auction ended. You emailed him within 12 hours. He is under no obligation to cancel your bid on your short notice, especially on a high end item. Your beef is with your customer who backed out, not with the seller. He didn't do anything wrong. You deserve your unpaid item strike. Move on.

 

[BowmanChromeAddict]

How is it possible that you were not able to retract your bid?

Can't retract within the last 12 hours of the auction unless it's done within one hour of placing the bid.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-retract.html

"and a day before the auction ended and even the day I emailed the seller 3x if they could cancel my bid"

Unless I'm reading this wrong, the kid knew a full day before the auction ended that his buyer was backing out. Well before the 12 hour mark for retracting bids.

 

[DaProspectKid]

I recently bid on a card that I was trying to win for a customer of mine and a day before the auction ended and even the day I emailed the seller 3x if they could cancel my bid they refused to cancel my bid and I won the card for 4200. After the auction was over I told him I tried to cancel my bid but it wouldn't let me if he could do it. If even emailed me like 10 minutes before auction ended saying if you win and don't pay your getting unpaid item. He sent me some nasty emails about if you can't afford it don't bid on it blah blah. I have no unpaid strikes on my account at all whatsoever and I bough a lot a lot of high end cards. He later relisted the card and sold it for 3700 what are my options here I feel like i let the seller know way in advance and everything he was saying that unpaid item strike will be issued in 3 days enjoy and all this macho man talk. His last email to me was pretty insulting and everything I really wanna negative it would ruin his 100% but I feel like he would try to get back at me some point. Am I in the wrong here i clearly told him 3 times to retract my bid anyone?

So, you didn't really email him a day before the auction ended. You emailed him within 12 hours. He is under no obligation to cancel your bid on your short notice, especially on a high end item. Your beef is with your customer who backed out, not with the seller. He didn't do anything wrong. You deserve your unpaid item strike. Move on.

No I emailed him with 24 hours left and over 12 hours left. I gave him more then enough time to cancel my bid but he refused to do so. ONce my customer didn't want the card I emailed him right away no response at all until 10 minutes left in the auction.

 

[bdal23]

All i know is with like 10 minutes he could canceled my bid and just said if you win it and don't pay your getting a strike? Really could he more of a ******? Then the emails he sent were just ridiculous.

You could have retracted this bid yourself. You are the one who screwed up.
10 minutes before the auction you want him to cancel a $4200 bid? To top it off you think he's the ******? This was your mistake, your error. You need to take accountability and realize you screwed up.
As a buyer I wouldn't pull this crap on a seller but if I did I would fully expect to get a non paying bidder claim filed. If you get a claim against you, you will receive what you deserve. Move on and learn from it. Also, learn how to use a snipe program or cancel your own bids

 

[smapdi]

Sorry, you are in the wrong. If you wanted to cancel a bid, you should've cancelled it. Never assume an ebay message will be read, let alone acted upon against the seller's interest. Seeing how the card sold for $500 less the second time around, it should be obvious why the seller didn't want to cancel your bid. Take the strike, learn the lesson, move on.

 

[RiceLynnEvans75]

Take the non-paying bidder strike and move on. If you can't commit yourself 100% to a listing, then don't bid. Additionally, know the rules ahead of time. You could have pulled your bid prior to the 12 hour mark. The seller is under no obligation to pull your bid either.

In any event, it was you who placed the bid, not the seller, so at least take responsibility for not following through on it and just accept the NPB strike which essentially means nothing anyway.

 

[RZimm11]

You are responsible for the bids placed on your account. Whether it's you placing for another person, or your kid placing a bid without your knowledge, or placing a bid yourself without the available money to pay. It's not the seller's fault nor his/her responsibility to cancel because YOUR customer backed out.

You had ample time and ability to cancel yourself before the 12 hour mark.

Seller did nothing wrong. Except maybe what was in the messages he sent, which hasn't been disclosed. But I'd be thoroughly pissed too if someone bid $4200 on my stuff then wanted to cancel.

 

[Pine Tar]

Thanks Topps

If you can't pay......don't play :benson:

 

[boomo]

you really have customers with that grasp of the human language?
Do you sell for people? your auctions must be awful.

 

[Musial Collector]

No I emailed him with 24 hours left and over 12 hours left. I gave him more then enough time to cancel my bid but he refused to do so. ONce my customer didn't want the card I emailed him right away no response at all until 10 minutes left in the auction.

How is it possible that you were not able to retract your bid?

I thought he would retract it like a normal seller would do. I went in there under 12 hours and It wouldn't let me do it.

So you email the seller 24+ hours and 12+ hours prior to it ending asking them to cancel your bid, but you wait until after the 12 hour deadline to try and retract your bid when you could have done it yourself and saved the headache and this useless thread???

 

[ChasHawk]

My guess is he didn't want the bid retraction on his record either... ::facepalm::

 

[DaProspectKid]

It's cool I will live with it I should have retracted by bid earlier my mistake. O well live and learn.

 

[Brewer Andy]

Lesson learned for you. As others stated, the NPB strike against you doesn't mean much unless your customers make a habit of this. Still a little shocked you were even considering leaving negative feedback (not that you'll be able to).......