ebay seller - buy it now

[andyjo1982]

Hi

Mods, not sure if this is right for the lounge but feel free to move.

Ok, so i listed an item last night, i only wanted to do Buy it now, but it wouldn't continue without offering a starting price for bidding. So i just put the starting price at 99p. Someone has bid and now as far as i can see, the buy it now has disappeared, so the auction will have to run for 7 days. They charge you to add buy it now, but once someone has bid remove it. Any ideas how i can put it back on?

thanks

[GarryA]

You can't if someone bids it turns it into a normal auction, the only way you can do it is like this,

BIN only - £10

BIN - £10, stating bid - £9.00

People will just bid 0.99p to piss you off.

[Meoricin]

You can't keep buy it now on once bidding has started.

[andyjo1982]

Ok, thanks, suppose i cant end the aution earlier either?

eta, Done it now. Thanks

Edited by andyjo1982 on Monday 4th October 15:17

[BGB autosport]

You should have just done a buy it now only auction or as said, put the price just under the BIN.

You can end it early, search "end auction" in the help section and you should find the end early form, fill it out, say you made an error in the listing or along those lines..

[Neil H]

To set the auction to Buy It Now only, you need to switch to the other tab on that section of the listing tool, it's called Fixed Price (as opposed to Auction). It costs more to list like that IIRC.

[Red Firecracker]

Sounds like you listed as an online auction rather than fixed price, the former requiring you to give a starting price and Buy It Now price, the latter just requiring a Buy it Now price.

[andyjo1982]

Thanks for the replies, ebays a ballache sometimes.