If your financial situation changes, an item isn't what you thought it was, or several other reasons, you may want to cancel a bid on eBay. Here's how to do it, as long as the rules you must follow. Provided there are more than 12 hours before the associated auction ends, you can cancel, or retract, any bid you place on eBay. That said, it's stipulated by eBay you can only retract a bid if:. In practice, it's possible to retract bids even if none of these circumstances apply.
With this warning in mind, you can complete the retraction by navigating to eBay's Retract Bid webpage. To do this, you can either access the retraction form, or you can navigate to eBay's Help pages and go to the section on retracting bids, where you can find an alternative, newer link for retracting bids. In cases where you use the old retraction form, here's what you do:. And here's how you retract a bid via eBay's Help pages:. It's also possible to retract an eBay bid when an auction is scheduled to finish in under 12 hours.
However, a few differences apply in such cases. For one, you can retract bids only within an hour of having made them. In other words, if there are less than 12 hours before an auction ends, any bid you place during this period must be retracted within an hour of making it.
Assuming this condition holds, you can then go about retracting exactly as described in the section above. If you have an issue with an eBay buyer, try contacting them directly to resolve your problem. Skip to main content. Enter the key words you want to ask for help. A dialog will open as you type your search terms.
While sellers cannot leave negative feedback for buyers, they can file unpaid item UPI cases that become part of buyers' records. If a buyer has too many UPIs, sellers may not want to sell to them for fear that they won't pay for the items.
Unpaid items are a huge hassle for sellers because cases have to be filed, then four more days must pass before they can be closed.
A seller can lose up to a week waiting for a UPI case to be resolved, all while their item is off the market. Other legitimate reasons to cancel buyers' bids:. How to cancel a bid:. Canceling a sale is an eBay no-no unless a buyer requests it. Buyers may change their minds, and if that is the case, it is perfectly acceptable to cancel a sale.
But if an item is damaged or out of stock and a seller must cancel because he can't ship the item, the cancellation counts against the seller. To cancel an eBay sale :. Social Media. More Button Icon Circle with three vertical dots. It indicates a way to see more nav menu items inside the site menu by triggering the side menu to open and close. Jennifer Still. You can remove a bid on an eBay item you've listed if you don't want a specific user to purchase an item you're selling, though only under certain conditions.
Removing a bid on eBay doesn't prevent the same user from placing another bid on your item. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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