Interesting morning on the auction side.....
toad67
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Drinking coffee and looking over my watch list, i decided to look at my item that I currently have listed. I noticed that it was lower today than it was yesterday and thought huh???
I clicked on the bids tab and noticed that on the bottom of the page there was a "bid retraction" and the high bidder was removed by Admin. I was thinking how/what was going on. Then I remembered that I just renewed my GB gold Membership plan and had live chat available to me, so I tried it. After a couple of minutes, London from GB told me that the bid was retracted due to the bidder being a fraudulent account. I thought that it was weird being a fraudulent buyer, since all of the times I've seen it, it has been the seller. London said that it is a pretty rare occurrence, but it does happen from time to time on the buyers side of the fence. The bidder had the green check by their user name, and also had 455 A+ feedbacks.
Cheers to GB saving me the headache of dealing with it.
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If someone who's not logged into my account clicks on the bid history, is the retracted bid viewable to everyone else?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/972522955
yes in separated box below bid history.
Seems odd that someone with that history and feedback unless of course their account was hacked. The world is getting chuck full of A-holes. Bob
It sounds like the whole account was fabricated. Just seems weird that it was on the buying, and not the selling side of things. Not quite sure how a buyer would fleece a seller out of money, especially when I didn't take any type of electronic payment.
Probably trying to earn legit reputations so it can post those.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Good catch @GB support
It says "No longer a registered user" so his account is kaput. Bob
I suspect there’s more to the story. He has a bunch of great reviews (as a buyer) from a lot of different real/reliable sellers. It would be tough - and pointless - to fabricate all that. Something must have changed to lead GB to send the account to the Island.
Nothing "fraudulent" about it. They made a bid, and then realized they couldn't pay for it, and contacted GB Support to remove it. And they did.
The simplest explanation is usually the most likely explanation.
Merc
When I contacted GBHQ, I specifically asked them why the bid was removed. They told me that it was a fraudulent account, and they will not remove bids at a buyers request. I'm glad that they found out now and saved me the headache.