A bid may be retracted (cancelled) by the buyer in some cases if the retraction meets the requirements of our Bid Retraction policy. Note: There is no equivalent for bid retraction in Buy It Now listings. Once you've confirmed your purchase, you are obligated to pay the seller.

Whether you can retract your bid or not depends on the following factors:

• Why you are retracting your bid

• When your bid was placed and when the listing ends.

You can retract a bid or a Best Offer for the following reasons:

• You make a typographical error and enter the wrong bid amount. For instance, you bid $99.50 instead of $9.95. If this occurs, enter the correct bid amount immediately after you retract your bid. If you do not place another bid, the retraction will be in violation of eBay's policy and could result in your suspension. Please review the retraction guidelines if you need to retract your bid.

• The description of an item you have bid on changed significantly after you placed your bid.

• You cannot contact the seller. This means that you tried to call the seller, but the seller's phone number doesn't work, or that you have tried emailing a message to the seller and it comes back undeliverable.

You can only retract your bid at certain stages of a listing, depending on when you placed your bid:

Restriction: Your total number of bid retractions in the past six months is displayed in your Feedback Profile. eBay will thoroughly investigate bid retractions. Abuse of this feature may result in the suspension of your account. Bids retracted within the last 24 hours of a listing may be viewed as bid shielding, which is a serious violation of our policy.

Note: If you retract a bid on an active item that is in a Bid Assistant group, the entire group will be closed. No other bids will be placed on items in the group.

To retract a bid, use the Bid Retraction form.

To retract a best offer, use the Best Offer Retraction form.