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From eBay announcements:
***Policy Change: Ending Listings Early***
Date: 09/30/04 Time: 04:02:29 PM PDT
Next week, we are updating the policy governing when a seller may end or change their listing. This will align our sellers’ ability to manage their listings with our buyers’ ability to retract bids. Currently, buyers have limitations on retracting bids during the last 12 hours of a listing.
Today, our policy allows a seller to cancel bids and end an item at any time as long as one of the following reasons is met:
The item is no longer available for sale.
There was an error in the starting price or reserve amount.
There was an error in the listing.
The item was lost or broken.
Sellers are also prevented from making changes to a listing during the final 12 hours. Beginning next week, if a listing has 12 or fewer hours remaining and has, or had, a winning bid during the final 12 hours of the listing, the seller will no longer be able to end the listing, except to sell to the current high bidder on eBay. Sellers may still cancel specific bids that they find unwelcome, but may no longer utilize the "cancel all bids and end this item" feature.
The practice of canceling all bids and ending an item early with only minutes left is very frustrating to buyers. This change should improve the overall buyer experience.
Sellers may still end listings during the final 12 hours of the listing if the item does not have any bids.
Regards,
eBay
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Well, I'm just delighted that eBay is concerned with improving the overall buyer experience.
Guess this means eBay's War on Sellers won't be over any time soon. Wonder who the buyers are going to buy from.
Anyone remember the Auctions for America after 9/11 when we were expected to give our stuff away and ship it free, too?
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"Sellers may still cancel specific bids that they find unwelcome..."
"Sellers may still end listings during the final 12 hours of the listing if the item does not have any bids."
Does that mean you can still do it, but just not all at once?
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Jayne - that's what it sounds like to me.
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if a listing has 12 or fewer hours remaining and has, or had, a winning bid during the final 12 hours of the listing, the seller will no longer be able to end the listing, except to sell to the current high bidder on eBay
It reads if a listing has lest then 12 hours to go and HAS or HAD a winning bid during the last 12 hours listing cannot be canceled. I read that to mean if there is a sucessful bid placed in the last 12 hours of the listing you cannot cancel the listing. You might be able to cancel that one bid but since the auction HAD a sucessful bidder you can't cancel the auction which leaves you open for a list second sniper
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Originally Posted by carberry
if a listing has 12 or fewer hours remaining and has, or had, a winning bid during the final 12 hours of the listing, the seller will no longer be able to end the listing, except to sell to the current high bidder on eBay
It reads if a listing has lest then 12 hours to go and HAS or HAD a winning bid during the last 12 hours listing cannot be canceled. I read that to mean if there is a sucessful bid placed in the last 12 hours of the listing you cannot cancel the listing. You might be able to cancel that one bid but since the auction HAD a sucessful bidder you can't cancel the auction which leaves you open for a list second sniper
I think the key word is the "or" (in bold).
The "or" means to me that even if all the bids are cancelled, the auction remains open.
So if you want to end your auctions early, you now have to do it 12 hours before end of auction.
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I don't think I mind this particular change. I've been on the bidding end of an auction I was waiting days for, and it was ended at last minute. It was truly frustrating, and I would have bought elsewhere had I expected that.
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Oh, here's a revolutionary thought.
Perhaps if you'd offered the seller a fair price for his item, you might have gotten it.
(Do I care that off-eBay deals are verboten? No, I do not.)
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