Bid
Realised I’ve messed up
Contacted seller
Said he’d cancel my bid
He didn’t
I won
What do I do??

Gaggia Selecta Deluxe 😢 instead of gaggia classic 😢
56 quid!!

If it was me, accept the mistake, buy it and then relist it. I doubt you’d make much of a loss overall and saves the hassle for the current seller.

Do the right thing and pay for it.
When it arrives, claim it’s badly damaged and seek a refund through ebay.
Ebay should refund you, and let you keep the coffee machine.

That’s fraud.

Oh come on, let’s assume he was joking!

If they said they’d cancel your bid, that’s on them.

I’d say that you have the conversation recorded through eBay asking for it to be cancelled, so you may be lucky.

Next time cancel it yourself though..

They can just cancel the sale after the auction.

When I was in that position as a seller, much searching of eBay’s not very helpful help pages led me to believe that if the seller cancels a winning bid they still pay the fees on the sale. I could be wrong. That was selling a car, and some eBay rules are different for cars.

Next time cancel it yourself though..

Unless bid made within last 12 hours where you can’t

That’s why sellers have a “Second chance offer” to send out to other bidders. They can still cancel your purchase. They’ll just relist or offer to the next highest bidder. Sod paying for something you’ve bid on in error.

Is this a Brexit analogy?

have you contacted the seller again?

That’s why sellers have a “Second chance offer” to send out to other bidders

It’s not meant to facilitate breach of contract, though. It’s to protect the seller if a breach occurs.

“Breach of contract”? It’s eBay ffs 😆

Just dont pay and leave it, I sold some tyres and the winner never paid and the second chance offer didnt wanna know. I couldn’t even leave bad feedback!

Ebay is a joke if someone does this to you (the seller). There is absolutely no way they will do anything to make you pay for what you bid on. All it does is mess the seller around who will have to relist it. I’ve had it happen to me a couple of times and it drives you mad.

I think they say it’s a legally binding contract when you submit a bid, except they will do nothing about it if you decide not to pay.

All it does is mess the seller around who will have to relist it

Not if you tell the seller and they offer to cancel your bid, then don’t. Then they’re messing themselves around.

eBay seller here, it’s not uncommon for a buyer to ask to cancel the sale afterwards (most of our listings are ‘buy it now’).

Simple process:
Buyer messages and asks to cancel (either before or after payment).
Seller goes to the sale and selects “cancel”.
This sends a message to the buyer, who has to confirm to eBay they want to cancel.
Payment is automatically refunded through Paypal if applicable and the seller gets the final value fees refunded, as long as the cancel reason is “buyer asked to cancel”.

No need to mess around with non-payment cases etc.

Ebay is a joke if someone does this to you (the seller). There is absolutely no way they will do anything to make you pay for what you bid on. All it does is mess the seller around who will have to relist it. I’ve had it happen to me a couple of times and it drives you mad.

Yep. I pretty much sell everything as Buy It Now with Pay Immediately option. Just this weekend had an offer on a Buy It Now item which I accepted and guess what, they haven’t paid 2 days later so now I have had to open a case, wait 5 days and then resist.
eBay could do a much better job if they gave seller option to cancel sale if no payment received within 24 hours as 99% of people should eb able to pay within 24 hours shouldn’t they?

@ossify – Exactly.

He cancelled the bid
No baby robins died
The world 🌎 still spins
I’ve not wasted cash on something I didn’t want
I leaned to read and think

Still never understood why they removed the option to leave negative feedback to Buyers, you would soon notice the ones to avoid and cancel there bids.

Goddam contract breaking fraudster time waster! 😀

BS behaviour by buyers has led me to buy it now sales only. I used to list items with no reserve but spoiling buyers have boiled my pi55 sufficiently that I now set the price and wait. The actions of the few do restrict options for the many.

As a long term seller, I always raise as a non paying bidder, once that lapses the buyer gets a strike, 3 strikes and out (banned on that email address anyway).

And on buy it now offers, always go back with a higher offer even by a penny, that means the auction stays open until the buyer physically makes payment.
No hassle of the buyer having made the offer backing out by not paying

And on buy it now offers, always go back with a higher offer even by a penny, that means the auction stays open until the buyer physically makes payment.

Great tip, I hadn’t thought of that. Will do that from now on thanks.