There is increasing demand for CANCEL ORDER option

[BAGHAG999]

All it needs is a mutual agreed cancelation button where both parties confirm they want to cancel.

Top of my wish list.

[astral276]

I understand why ebid don't want a cancel option in order not to lose commission...

Then I feel your understanding is wrong. That would mean that eBid are out to take money from its users that it has no right to. I have never known eBid to do that. Quite the contrary. If there has ever been a query on fees eBid has, in my experience, always refunded if there has been the slightest question over if those fees have been incurred. Often in cases where I have thought they had no cause to refund and, in their position, I likely would not have.

The real cause is more likely that it is not just a simple matter of writing one line of code to enable cancellations but would entail a major rewrite of the whole system. Any cancellation would ripple all the way through every aspect of the site.

There is the consideration that cancellations could be open to abuse, but I very much doubt that is the prime factor in the issue.

[HerMajesty]

Well said, Astral. As usual.

[bykimbo]

A cancellation routine is still an essential requirement, and I'm bumping this shamelessly to try to get eBid to respond. Gazza, please tell me this is on the "to do" list in some form?

[madelaine]

This really needs to be done

[astral276]

This really needs to be done

I think it is either never going to be done or will one day suddenly appear.

It seems to be one of those topics that admin will not address here in the forums. I don't know why they do that. If the answer is 'No' then just say so.

[BAGHAG999]

Ive assumed the answer is no, so wont bother to keep asking for this.

[madelaine]

I have not given up

[Gwenna]

I want to cancel order. I did contact seller. But since I am new to this site, I wasn't thinking along the lines of a "hit the first button and it's yours" mentality. Normally when shopping online, it's "click and then confirm after you have clicked to buy it" So with that being said, it's odd to click once and then it's yours. And on a bidding site I suppose that is nice, but I think it needs to be a little more clear that once you click the buynow button you are literally buying NOW. It's misleading because many sites say buynow and you aren't yet. You know?...

[dardonboi]

I want to cancel order. I did contact seller. But since I am new to this site, I wasn't thinking along the lines of a "hit the first button and it's yours" mentality. Normally when shopping online, it's "click and then confirm after you have clicked to buy it" So with that being said, it's odd to click once and then it's yours. And on a bidding site I suppose that is nice, but I think it needs to be a little more clear that once you click the buynow button you are literally buying NOW. It's misleading because many sites say buynow and you aren't yet. You know?...

With all the things I have purchased there were 2 steps to the bidding process. One place to submit bid and a second pop-up to confirm or cancel your bid. Did you not get the pop-up?