Another Ebay Frustration (1 Viewer)

[gk5717]

I was under the impression if you listed something on ebay for sale and there were bids you could not unlist the item. If you did there were consequenes.
Well there was an item I bid on, there were 7 bids total, and the guy removed it. I called ebay and they said the only thing they would do is charge him for what the highest bid was when he removed it. Now I wasn,t born yesterday but I,m sure he sold it in an off deal outside ebay. I messaged the seller and he said he gave it to a friend after the friend begged him for it, BS. What frustrates me about this as I would have paid whatever it took to win this item, it was a St Louis Braves pennant, only specific collectors would have wanted it. Seems ebay gets you as a seller and a buyer!
Gary

 

[Panzer ace]

I was under the impression if you listed something on ebay for sale and there were bids you could not unlist the item. If you did there were consequenes.
Well there was an item I bid on, there were 7 bids total, and the guy removed it. I called ebay and they said the only thing they would do is charge him for what the highest bid was when he removed it. Now I wasn,t born yesterday but I,m sure he sold it in an off deal outside ebay. I messaged the seller and he said he gave it to a friend after the friend begged him for it, BS. What frustrates me about this as I would have paid whatever it took to win this item, it was a St Louis Braves pennant, only specific collectors would have wanted it. Seems ebay gets you as a seller and a buyer!
Gary

Gary:

That stinks. It seems these days that eBay does a lot more to protect their sellers than it does for their buyers.

-Jason

 

[jazzeum]

Yes, you can end an auction early for several reasons, and sometimes you do it because you get a blow away bid. I've done this as a bidder although I haven't done it as a seller. Just a fact of life.

 

[PanzerAce1944]

I would say it is wrong to end something that has bids on it already. No bidders, no harm, no foul, but...... pulling something that a buyer has already bid on and committed to is a bad way of doing things IMO !

 

[joesgis]

I was under the impression if you listed something on ebay for sale and there were bids you could not unlist the item. If you did there were consequenes.
Well there was an item I bid on, there were 7 bids total, and the guy removed it. I called ebay and they said the only thing they would do is charge him for what the highest bid was when he removed it. Now I wasn,t born yesterday but I,m sure he sold it in an off deal outside ebay. I messaged the seller and he said he gave it to a friend after the friend begged him for it, BS. What frustrates me about this as I would have paid whatever it took to win this item, it was a St Louis Braves pennant, only specific collectors would have wanted it. Seems ebay gets you as a seller and a buyer!
Gary

Hi Gary,
Sorry that you lost the Braves pennant to an unethical seller. These kind of things just tick me off! I have been looking for a St Petersburg Roman catapult diorama for ages. Up pops one on ebay and I use the buy it now option and pay for it. The next day I get a refund from the seller who says he is out of the country in Germany and could not ship the item at this time so he just refunded the money. I emailed him back saying I don't want the money, I want the catapult diorama! I told him I'd wait until he returns to ship it, but of course he didn't reply. It makes no sense and of course he probably won't be responding because he either decided he couldn't part w/ it or he sold it for more to someone else off ebay (the most likely outcome). This is a new one for me to actually have bought an item and paid for it with an instant paypal transfer only to have the seller refund the money (which is temporarily inaccessible to me until the funds get returned to my account)....very frustrating. I'm going to contact ebay about this ordeal. The seller needs to be reported at least. I think we're both being deceived by unscrupulous sellers. It's too bad and I know how you feel; we both wanted these items badly. You get excited when you finally find the special item, and then the rug gets pulled out from under you.
Joe

 

[uksubs]

I've had it done to me where a seller finished item early and when I contacted he told me someone made him a offer but to be fair I don't blame him with what ebay charge now days ! For me I think ebay had it day as a seller it not worth all the crap you get with it

 

[Mitch]

Funny but, I have just been reading the latest e-bay notifications and they are charging the seller the actual costs if they finish an auction early so, the seller still gets charged commission even though he pulls the item. I think we always hear from sellers on here how bad buyers are but, these are just crappy ways to deal with people.
Mitch

 

[marco55]

Once there is a bid on something they should not be allowed to remove it.Once a buyer commits to buying something he can't change his mind unless the seller agrees.
Mark

 

[mikemiller1955]

Once there is a bid on something they should not be allowed to remove it.Once a buyer commits to buying something he can't change his mind unless the seller agrees.
Mark

actually...the buyer can...

and has done it to me more than once...

it's my understanding that he will receive a "strike" for not paying for an item once he has won with the bid he submitted...

I think Ebay is playing a "baseball format"...

3 strikes and you're out...

I currently have my settings set to filter out any possible bid by a potential bidder that already has one strike on his record...

 

[jazzeum]

It has happened to me a couple of times as well. Five seconds of annoyance and then move on.

What's actually more annoying is when a buyer makes a bid on an auction you're bidding on to see how high you're bidding and then withdraws it. I had bid on an item but figured I was going to lose it, got outbid and so bid on a similar item, the buyer who then outbid me withdrew his bid and I was stuck with both items and I was none too happy. That is why, unless I'm not going to be able to bid, I don't bid until the last four seconds of an auction. Unfortunately, it was the former situation when I bid that time.

 

[ucla1967]

I also have had items that I was biding on cancelled by the seller. In many cases, the reason given is that there was an error in the listing, but when I re-examine the listing I can't see anything that even resembles an error. My suspicion is that another bidder has contacted the seller directly and completed the deal outside of eBay. I also agree that eBay's policy should be that once bids have been received on an item, it can't be cancelled.

 

[jazzeum]

Here's an interesting situation, which I, as a seller, have encountered, http://www.ebay.com/itm/King-and-Co...%2FYGaokqS3QiVDTuxRqQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

This auction was originally listed at $49 (no buy it now) and no bids. However, one person wanted it bad enough that the buyer and the seller struck a deal with a buy it now at $99. This, in my opinion, is acceptable.

 

[marco55]

I agree Brad as long as both parties are happy.
Mark