This is my biggest problem with eBay!

wildwest3163

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LOL, I saw this coming a week ago when he listed it. Playboy pinball, non working but in nice shape. Started it at 1 cent, talking about how he could sell the playfield for 400 or the backglass for 300. last hours of the auction top bid was 505, seller cancels bids and ends auction. There is no way eBay should allow this type of behaveour, but I see it all the time. Seller isnt happy with the price and they bail. If you take the gamble, you should have to stand behind the sell. Thats what reserves are for.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180473636021&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
 
Agreed, it sucks Ebay has that "12 hours(or 24?)" before auction end, that you can pull it. I have few items up, and that's what the "reserve" feature is for. If they don't know for sure that they want to sell it, maybe they should just keep quiet and not post it. I know, common sense seems to skip a few people, lol.
 
Who knows someone could snipe it at the end and jack the price way up, I guess dirtbags like that will never know what they Really could have got.
 
LOL, I saw this coming a week ago when he listed it. Playboy pinball, non working but in nice shape. Started it at 1 cent, talking about how he could sell the playfield for 400 or the backglass for 300. last hours of the auction top bid was 505, seller cancels bids and ends auction. There is no way eBay should allow this type of behaveour, but I see it all the time. Seller isnt happy with the price and they bail. If you take the gamble, you should have to stand behind the sell. Thats what reserves are for.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180473636021&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

The real problem is that doing this sort of shit DOES violate Ebay policy, but they don't enforce it hardly at all.
 
LOL, I saw this coming a week ago when he listed it. Playboy pinball, non working but in nice shape. Started it at 1 cent, talking about how he could sell the playfield for 400 or the backglass for 300. last hours of the auction top bid was 505, seller cancels bids and ends auction. There is no way eBay should allow this type of behavior, but I see it all the time. Seller isn't happy with the price and they bail. If you take the gamble, you should have to stand behind the sell. Thats what reserves are for.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180473636021&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I guess he thought he wasn't going to get the other $195.:D
Seriously though I hear you if your have an auction up and there are that many bidders there should be no way you could cancel the auction at all.
 
I guess he thought he wasn't going to get the other $195.:D
Seriously though I hear you if your have an auction up and there are that many bidders there should be no way you could cancel the auction at all.

The problem is that there ARE (very rarely) good reasons to cancel an auction (I've done it exactly once myself (I've been using Ebay since 1997) - I can't remember what, but I did something stupid with the item in question (dropped it? fell on it? I can't remember) and it was just trash afterwards.

The problem is that EBay doesn't seem to pay any attention to how often people do this. If you're ending auctions early more once a year, you're doing it VERY wrong.

This is a general problem with EBay - they have lots of policies of things you shouldn't do, but they spend their time policing the dumb ones (I've been dinged for putting 'NIB' in the title of an auction!) and not noticing the 'borderline fraud' ones (like sellers that regularly end auctions early).
 
happens to me ALL the time around here. Heck I even had a guy refuse to contact me after the auction ended (i even called him) and 3 months later woop its back up on ebay and sells for more. Ebay dont care, they just want dah moneys
 
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