Getrag Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Im selling something on ebay with no reserve but its reached a crap price. Can I cancel it completely, or can you only cancel it on the last bidder? I just wanna remove it completely and sell it again some other time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I believe you can cancel the auction as long as there is more than 1 hour to go. Edit add: You need to cancel any existing bids before cancelling the auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getrag Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 Cheers Jake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffvalenti Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Don't take this personally Getrag, but its actions like that, that get eBay its bad name. Nothing is more infuriating as a buyer, than bidding on a "no reserve" item, only to see it whisked away at the last minute. It just wastes everyones time. Better bet in the future would be to either sport out and put a sensible reserve on the item, or raise the starting price to the minimum amount that you're prepared to accept. It sounds like you could be new to eBay and don't know the etiquette, but its only by both buyers AND sellers playing fairly that it works. I get just as infuriated with buyers, who bid high on a item and then withdraw the bid at the latest possible moment. Anyway rant over, hope you sell whatever it is you're selling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRex Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 fair point Geoff mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelG Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Don't take this personally Getrag, but its actions like that, that get eBay its bad name. Nothing is more infuriating as a buyer, than bidding on a "no reserve" item, only to see it whisked away at the last minute. It just wastes everyones time. Better bet in the future would be to either sport out and put a sensible reserve on the item, or raise the starting price to the minimum amount that you're prepared to accept. It sounds like you could be new to eBay and don't know the etiquette, but its only by both buyers AND sellers playing fairly that it works. I get just as infuriated with buyers, who bid high on a item and then withdraw the bid at the latest possible moment. Anyway rant over, hope you sell whatever it is you're selling Very true and i second that, many a time have i spent ten days or so bidding on an item with no reserve.......making sure i am still in the lead.......and with 2-3 hours or so to go the auction is ended early, obviously because the seller wants more. Mega mega mega annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I sell loads of stuff on eBay (1670+ feedback) & without doubt the last few hours is when most stuff increases the most. Then again, I never put a reserve on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgen-Jm-Imports Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 u cant take an item off ebay if it has had a bid on and it has less than 12 hours to go, this happened with my tt supra a while back i wanted to end listing early but beacuse it had bids on and there was only ten hours to go i was stuffed, anyway the cars price went up very quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 u cant take an item off ebay if it has had a bid on and it has less than 12 hours to goOh is it 12 hours? I thought it was one hour. My mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRex Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 so legally you have to sell it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 so legally you have to sell it I read on uk.legal a few months ago that eBay's rules are not enforceable under UK law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 If there are no bids oyu can cancel it after a diff amount of time. I got stung like that. Advertised something, everyone said not to bother putting a reserve on it as it'd bid up.... did it b0ll0cks. Sold it for a pathetic amount, wasn't impressed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRex Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I read on uk.legal a few months ago that eBay's rules are not enforceable under UK law. Interesting, perhaps a test case will emerge soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgen-Jm-Imports Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 get one off you mates to put a bid on it up to your reserve if u desperate to keep hold of the item, but doing this is a last resort as this isnt fair to the other bidders. next time put a reserve mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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