MTS do you manually snipe or use one of the commercial services? I used one for a year due to the fact that they made it almost impossible to stop-had to write them could not email or cancel online...but I did like the way that works. You could put in multiple things with the intent to buy just 1 for the best price.

I sometimes use http://www.auctionstealers.com ; you get 3 free snipes a week. Basically what they do is enter your max bid in the last few seconds of bidding, giving others less of a chance to see your bid and outbid you. It's just like putting in your own max bid, except the service does it for you about 10 seconds before auction end.

oops, been there done that too, contacted seller just as soon as it was noticed and she somehow had it removed...

I'm with you. I don't proxy bid...I snipe. I have been buying/selling on Ebay since 1998. I would probably have given the backup bidder the chance to purchase and if they did then I would have let you off the hook. Ebay's fees are so high that you can't afford to just ignore the high bid because selling fees are based on this. Sometimes people have "buyer's remorse" or better put "bidder's remorse" and just decide they don't want to go through with it. The seller may not have thought that $70 was that high of a bid. (Granted, $47,000 would have been obvious). I commend you for following through with your bid. I did they same thing years ago and I just bit the bullet and paid for it. Believe me, from now on you will always check your bid before you hit confirm. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Check w/ebay because I've made a mistake in bidding as you did, and it was rescinded.

Sorry that happened, but on the positive side you have a great new quilt

I've retracted a bid when I accidentally bid more then I meant to.

Ouch! I've had that happen to me on ebay too. Just going too fast for my own good and not checking my bids! At least the seller I contacted was kind enough to understand. Sorry to hear your seller wasn't as kind.

In most cases one can retract a bid. Especially if there is time. If you bid a few minutes before the bidding is done you are usually stuck. But if you even have a half hour you can retract the too high bid.

I have done that several times on ebay. When that happens you can go right away and retract your bid unless its real close to time for the auction to end. If its a nice quilt then $70.00 is a good deal though.