Ebay Question

TBirdUK · 27 Feb 2015 at 11:49

I was bidding on an item on ebay, I was winning and it had over a day left to run but its disappeared, not in any lists as didnt win or ended or anything.

Any ideas?

snips86x · 27 Feb 2015 at 11:50

Removed!

labcoattech · 27 Feb 2015 at 11:53

Most likely someone offered a buy it now price.

TBirdUK · 27 Feb 2015 at 12:52

not much of an auction if you can withdraw at any time!!

There was no buy it now price either

benjii · 27 Feb 2015 at 12:56

TBirdUK said:
not much of an auction if you can withdraw at any time!!

There was no buy it now price either

People do it all the time. Sometimes the seller gets contacted and they deal outside of ebay, other times it's not getting as much interest as they hoped so they remove the auction.

Adam · 27 Feb 2015 at 13:28

Most likely someone has offered them a price to remove the auction in order to save their fees.

Kipz · 27 Feb 2015 at 13:39

I'm pretty sure you cant withdraw an item from auction if it has bids on it without the bidder agreeing too.

lemonade · 27 Feb 2015 at 14:47

Kipz said:
I'm pretty sure you cant withdraw an item from auction if it has bids on it without the bidder agreeing too.

I've withdrawn auctions in the past, it's only when its on the final day IIRC you cannot withdraw it.

benjii · 27 Feb 2015 at 15:41

lemonade said:
I've withdrawn auctions in the past, it's only when its on the final day IIRC you cannot withdraw it.

I think it's the last 12 hours.

TBirdUK · 27 Feb 2015 at 18:36

ah, that explains it

Krono5 · 27 Feb 2015 at 19:55

benjii said:
I think it's the last 12 hours.

This.

mushtafa · 27 Feb 2015 at 19:59

I'm pretty sure it can't be removed once a bid has been placed?

cainer · 27 Feb 2015 at 20:09

when a listing has disappeared like that its usually ebay that has cancelled the item due to some kind of infringement, if a seller just cancels a listing its still searchable afaik

UberTiger · 27 Feb 2015 at 20:13

I messed up a few months back and used eBay to try and sell an iPhone after not using it for a year or two.

I put up the iPhone for auction only, 7 days.

2 Days in I got an decent offer locally so I agreed to the sale and went to remove the listing.

Turns out, once the auction has been live for more than 24 hours you can only end it if you pay the final value fees of the current bid!

The auction had already reached about £400, as it was past the 24 hour threshold, even though there was still 4 days left, if I wanted to cancel the listing I had to pay final value fees! This meant the ebay listing cost me over £40 in the end and I didn't even sell to an eBayer.

:mad:

413x · 27 Feb 2015 at 20:25

UberTiger said:
I messed up a few months back and used eBay to try and sell an iPhone after not using it for a year or two.

I put up the iPhone for auction only, 7 days.

2 Days in I got an decent offer locally so I agreed to the sale and went to remove the listing.

Turns out, once the auction has been live for more than 24 hours you can only end it if you pay the final value fees of the current bid!

The auction had already reached about £400, as it was past the 24 hour threshold, even though there was still 4 days left, if I wanted to cancel the listing I had to pay final value fees! This meant the ebay listing cost me over £40 in the end and I didn't even sell to an eBayer.

Didn't know this

TBirdUK · 27 Feb 2015 at 23:11

spoke to ebay - listing was removed as the seller said the item was damaged!! He still had to pay the listing fees, now it is back re-listed with now 6 days left to run and it starts all over again - no good for me as I wanted it for the weekend (and I would have still purchased it with the damage as it was only the built in dvd that didnt work!)

Crazy system, I am really starting to hate ebay

Kronos · 28 Feb 2015 at 04:15

I have had things listed on forums as well as Ebay, so if it sells via a forum then I pull the Ebay listing and consider myself fortunate that I have not had to pay their fees.