Reply With QuoteIf an item has bids on you have to be careful withdrawing and relisting it. As far as eBays concerned it will/ could have sold, so they often bill you as such.
I've noticed a few times on EBay I've followed an auction and then it closes shortly before the auction ends. The watch then gets relisted at a buy it now or best offer. I'm guessing the seller is trying to gauge interest/value in their watch?
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If an item has bids on you have to be careful withdrawing and relisting it. As far as eBays concerned it will/ could have sold, so they often bill you as such.
Yeah or there seeing if it goes above what they actually want, but as it’s not they don’t hit value they want take it off a re-list it! Long gone are the days of eBay bargains
Maybe got made an offer so they re list so buyer can pay that offered price as a buy it now
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I'll put my hand up and say I've done this once for an item I had for sale. It was a double disk unit for a BBC Micro, so fairly rare, but to keep fee's low I started it on a 99p 7 day auction. Received a couple of bids within the first few hours. Then received a message offering a very attractive BIN price. Agreed to end the auction, relist the item as BIN and the buyer followed that process.
I have also purchased from eBay sellers in the same way after making an offer.Originally Posted by Tabs
It generally means they are a dodgy moron who you should avoid in future.
So the responders above and me as well?
I've done the same when someone offers to buy and sellers have done it for me. No morons involved.
Yes I see your point, most probably are not dodgy
Congratulations! What are you selling?
And do you have a Buy It Now price?
Indeed. Just a month or so ago I won an Ebay auction for a watch that the seller promptly refused to send to me and re-listed, as he wasn't pleased with the final price!
Yup, happened to me. Annoyed (substitute more 'forceful' words there) was I. In my case most recently the seller just cancelled the sale after I won the item and would not reply to my messages.
I hope that you left Negative feedback (and reported them as a Non Performing Seller - https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/buying/r...EFAULT_BUYER)/
Given the size of e-bay and the number of individual transactions there are always going to be problems. I sold a Steinhart and the buyer contacted me and said, Sorry yours is a Mark one, I was after a Mark two. I just cancelled the transaction and relisted. Most people wait for the £1.00 listings, so no real harm done if anything goes wrong, PayPal only get involved if someone pays, so it's easy for people to mess about.
I always list mine as buy it now or make an offfer and usually you can tell who the serious buyers are and can haggle with them accordingly. Auctions are a pain, 6 days 23.5 hours of nothing, then some bidding in the last few minutes.
Or trying to solicit offers outside eBay, to avoid paying commission and fees on the sale of more expensive items. It happens all the time. There's an Australian eBay seller who frequently lists Rolex's, including a James Cameron Sea Dweller, vintage Submariners, Datejusts, Oysterdates, etc., but then regularly pulls the listings (as item allegedly no longer available) and subsequently re-lists them at a later date.
I did flag him up in a couple of other threads for dodgy eBay dealings and abuse, but provided too many of his personal details and Eddie deleted the posts. He is a member on TZ-UK, but his only post (an attempt to antagonize me) has also been deleted.
The other solution is to get yourself upgraded to eBay's Concierge level membership, which gets you a hotline into eBay Dublin, where you can speak to a real person who understands plain English (unlike their Filipino call center operatives). I did - and succeeded in getting two of that devious Australian seller's other eBay ID's banned.
Last edited by Seiko7A38; 16th October 2019 at 14:09.
eBay do try and screw you on the £1 listings. If it goes over a month then it's back at full FV fee. I once got asked where I was based. I told the guy just off j25 of the M1. They charged me FV fee saying I'd delt outside of eBay. Despite the watch selling a week later on eBay!
Agreed, but the deal comes around every two to three weeks, so I end all my listings and re-post them. I never relist, just cut and paste from the earlier one because I think they charge you full whack for a relist.
No they don't - as long as you have accepted the £1 Offer then your relisted item will be eligible.
You can check that this is the case by looking at the total number of listings remaining, that can be used on the deal.
Fair enough, I only list one or two items a month, so don't study the T&Cs that closely.
I have noticed that quite a lot of listings on eBay, including for Rolex watches, include the seller's mobile number. (That's not eBay business sellers - just regular punters.)
It's supposed to be against listing rules, as it obviously invites contact and sale outside eBay, and yet they certainly don't seem to be routinely taken down.
I'm torn. He certainly violated the deal by which he was allowed to post the watch for auction in the first place, but there's no fun in buying a watch from a dissatisfied seller, and giving him negative feedback really wouldn't change anything about the situation. I guess I'm in a bit of a live and let live mood, we'll see.
I had the same a few days ago, the watch developed a crown issue in between pictures for ebay and packaging up for me.
Not worth getting riled up over it, it's part and parcel of hunting for bargains and i don't begrudge someone not taking a bath on an item.
That escalated quickly!
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