Buying off ebay

[Skyedriver]

Went to look at a car on Wednesday, seemed sound, showed serious interest, seller joked about people asking what he'd take for it etc.
There were about 18 bids on it at that time.
Got an email yesterday asking if I was interested in the car as the seller had received an offer.
Told him I was interested and following the auction.
Now see the auction has been ended.
Can you end an auction once bids have been placed?

[iva cosworth]

Skyedriver said:

Can you end an auction once bids have been placed?

Yes.

They usually back that up by saying "Advertised elsewhere,so can remove at any time".

[DocArbathnot]

Skyedriver said:

Went to look at a car on Wednesday, seemed sound, showed serious interest, seller joked about people asking what he'd take for it etc.
There were about 18 bids on it at that time.
Got an email yesterday asking if I was interested in the car as the seller had received an offer.
Told him I was interested and following the auction.
Now see the auction has been ended.
Can you end an auction once bids have been placed?

I have, if a good offer is made...........................................

[Perd Hapley]

Yes. It's quite common to see eBay motors listings end with "the seller ended this auction because the item is no longer available" - in other words, they accepted an offer offline.

[LancerG]

If you went to see it, you should of made an offer, obviously someone else did !!

[HaloGen8]

Two angles here at the time in that you could have thought he's just playing the salesman game with you. But then there's genuine folk out there and was offering you the opportunity to buy. Looks like you may have missed this one, but all perfectly normal.