ebay removed advert

[shakotan]

hora said:

Its a hidden message as in 'make me an offer'?

I dont like ebay, I always contact sellers directly- anything to avoid lining ebay's pockets.

Ebay/paypal - bashing? You can only bash something that deserves bashing..

hora said:

Says to me that seller is selling through other channels- meaning contact them and offer them!

It's neither. It's usually that the goods really are for sale elsewhere.

I recently listed my Lexus GS300 on there, at the same time as advertising it on PH Classfieds. Car sold through PH, so I binned the auction.

[Neil_H]

Rotary Madness said:

Davi said:

Rotary Madness said:

I bloody hate tts like you who insist on putting :reserve to end early as its listed elsewhere" crap. Its just a lame excuse to end the auction if its not reaching the money you want. Well boo fking hoo, try putting the reserve to what you want next time, instead of wasting everyones fking time.

I hate people that want to sell their goods for the most they can get them for too. It's just NOT FAIR. They should all be selling them at 1/10th their value, but only to me, not any other bidders. It's just NOT FAIR that they can try and play a system to make the most of their assets when I'm trying to get something for nothing.

OP - I didn't know it was in their terms either, I always used the line in listing that I would also (sensibly) advertise elsewhere and never had an ad pulled yet for it.

Well now you're just being stupid. If they want to sell it for so much, I've no problem with that. Stick it up with that amount as the reserve, and if it doesn't sell, tough. Don't go listing it with a stupidly low amount that you have no intention of letting it go for, and when it doesn't reach what you want, pulling it with some crap excuse that it was sold elsewhere 10 seconds before the listing ends.

If i thought the seller was wanting too much, i just wouldn't bid, not whine i thought it was too much.

Reserve price auctions cost more in fees, any retard can see that people will try and avoid this where possible, and if you're bidding on an item that is significantly below it's true value the seller is likely to cut the auction short.

It's also not possible to end the auction less than 24 hours before the end, so you're clearly talking ste there.

Edited by Neil_H on Thursday 30th July 14:39

[Jag-D]

tim2100 said:

How long has this been happening?

Ages, I've had just about every single ad pulled on there at some point because of the above.

Ebay are trying to stop people circumventing their listing fees by claiming items are sold elsewhere when you've done it through ebay without the official proceedure, but in the same process they're alienating sellers due to them basically demanding exclusivity

[Evangelion]

If you do have to end an auction early because you've sold it elsewhere, you have to specify why. Just use the 'item no longer available' option. If anyone asks you can always say you dropped/stepped on/reversed over it and broke it. Who's to know different?