You got it exactly...I know that was a complicated scenario, but yeah...I did send ebay a message regarding the retractions by two bidders. It was one of my first auctions, so I figured people did that all the time. Ebay just sent me a kind of cryptic and stockish email to the effect that they had investigated and taken appropriate action. Also yet ANOTHER bidder on that auction emailed me before the end offering positive feedback in exchange for retracting my (at the time) high bid because she said she had a high maximum and wasn't going to let it get away but could I save her some bucks anyway! Sheesh!