The guy's name is Larry Star. He's in a band called The Buzz Cuts based out of Seattle. He's got a website now: www.weddingdressguy.com. I just signed up for eBay, and someone interviewed him on eBay's radio station (?). The auction site had about 6 million hits, definitely a record. He said he found the gloves that went with the dress--be on the lookout!

Several people whose bids were cancelled are no longer registered members. Most are well-established ebayers. Could their accounts have been cancelled for placing these bogus bids??

Your account sure can be cancelled for placing bogus bids... it says your bid is a contract when you bid... no matter how good you are if you bid and don't buy they take it seriously over there. My friend was a SERIOUS super star E bay person... we bought lots of expensive tickets to concerts, she once purchased an expensive camera... basically she was addicted to E bay... but she always paid ,had only positive feedback... paid with speed... well she bid on something recently, forgot about it and won, didn't pay and now she's cancelled and had to create a new account and start all over. so yeah they take it seriously when you place a bid you don't intend to keep.

Wow! Of course I'd never bid on something like this, but I'm glad ebay won't have it.

Unfortunately, the winning bid was bogus and Larry is stuck with the dress... I think the bidder should be forced to pay for it. That's what you get when you enter a serious auction. Poor guy... maybe he can try again when he auctions off the gloves :D

If she got suspended, it wasn't just that one thing. You have to have 3 different sellers file Non Paying Bidder Alerts on you to get suspended. A seller can file a Non Paying Bidder Alert Warning on you after 7 days if you don't pay- you get a strongly worded email from ebay. So there's not excuse that you "forgot about it"- you would get several emails from the seller AND ebay. 10 days after that, the seller files for their Final Value Fees (gets back a part of the fees that they lost), and that completes the NPB process.

I WISH that ebayers would be gone after one non-pay.... would make my life as an ebay business person a heck of a lot easier.

I HATE people who bid and don't pay. Unfortunately I get a lot of those... my guess is that many of the people who buy my auctions are young, college kids, who either have no money or just think it's kind of a game and they don't have to pay.