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[Cheers Ian]

It's his auction and if he chooses to end it early it's his business.

He never took anyones money or "screwed" anyone out of this figure. Even if you were a bidder, there was no guarantee that you would win the auction.

There's no need for a flame war over what's right and what's wrong. It's perfectly acceptible in the eyes of eBay if the item is "No longer available for sale".

Cheers!
-Ian

[TFtoys]

Originally Posted by Matrix_Holder

An auction is a gamble that you may not get the price you want, you have entered into an agreement that the highest bidder by the end of the auction gets the item. You cannot just end the auction if you do not think you are going to get the desired price. I have reported early ended auctions that I have bid on to ebay and only had to pay my final bid that I made plus shipping. If you don't want to sell the item for a low price, use the "buy it now" or "best offer".

people or sellers end their item early might not be a bad thing if the reason is the product no longer available. They might try to sell both locally and ebay with the same resources or same amount of the products.
The worst is that they make mistakes in the listing. It is better to end the item early instead to revise the list which the bidders are not be aware of.

I think the problem for the thread might be the conflict of the board members as a ebay sellers at the same time. Hence, people assume the sellers are posting messages for their own selling purpose to advertise their listings on Cybertron.ca. Just my one cent opinion.

[hugh_da_man]

Originally Posted by Vakamadisk

I know that what I did wasn't fair to the other bidders. I've been selling items on ebay for quite some time, so I'll be honest and say that I do not favor shipping items.

I realize that the auction had 4 bids before I ended it. I apologize to those who really wanted to win the items. That was the first time I've ever ended an auction early like that. When I received that offer from a buyer who lives locally in my area, I considered the options: Take the offer and avoid shipping and ebay seller fees, or decline (honorably) and allow the auction to continue.

I chose the first choice because it was really convenient for me. Preparing items for shipping takes a lot of my time, and I've been extremely busy with work lately.

Normally I wouldn't do something as dishonorable as this. I've received local offers on previous ebay auctions in the past; and I declined them because I thought of you, the bidder. This time, however; I was stressed and desperate for cash. Those feelings got the better of me, so I accepted that type of offer for the very first time.

Please understand that I do not regularly end my auctions suddenly like that. Once again, I apologize to all those who participated in the auction.

Tomorrow, I'll be placing a whole bunch of new auctions on ebay. They'll include RID/Car Robots Omega Prime combiner set, Takara Car Robots (show-accurate colors) Ruination combiner set, G1 Sixshot (100% Complete), etc.

Best regards.

If you don't want to ship stuff then why not list it in the BST first? Why list on ebay and then end auctions early when you could just list on the site for the price you want?

[Matrix_Holder]

Originally Posted by TFtoys

people or sellers end their item early might not be a bad thing if the reason is the product no longer available. They might try to sell both locally and ebay with the same resources or same amount of the products.
The worst is that they make mistakes in the listing. It is better to end the item early instead to revise the list which the bidders are not be aware of.

I think the problem for the thread might be the conflict of the board members as a ebay sellers at the same time. Hence, people assume the sellers are posting messages for their own selling purpose to advertise their listings on Cybertron.ca. Just my one cent opinion.

when the auction that I bid on was ended early I found out that the seller relisted the item that same day with a higher buy it now price,( I was so pissed off) I emailed ebay and they investigated it and they made him honor my last bid. If someone has a legitimate reason for ending an auction like the item is damaged/lost or for some reason the seller is unable to sell it at all that's ok, but not to end it and sell it to some one else for a higher price. That's my view on the matter based on some of my experiences on ebay, not this threads auction. I posted just to gives some advice to the seller/TC.

[Vakamadisk]

Originally Posted by Matrix_Holder

when the auction that I bid on was ended early I found out that the seller relisted the item that same day with a higher buy it now price,( I was so pissed off) I emailed ebay and they investigated it and they made him honor my last bid. If someone has a legitimate reason for ending an auction like the item is damaged/lost or for some reason the seller is unable to sell it at all that's ok, but not to end it and sell it to some one else for a higher price. That's my view on the matter based on some of my experiences on ebay, not this threads auction. I posted just to gives some advice to the seller/TC.

Good on you for getting the item. Do you mind me asking what it was you won? Anyways, thanks for your advise. Don't worry, people, I wont be pulling stuff like this in future auctions.

Originally Posted by hugh_da_man

If you don't want to ship stuff then why not list it in the BST first? Why list on ebay and then end auctions early when you could just list on the site for the price you want?

I list on ebay in order to gain international attention as well. Shipping can be a hassle for me (and many others, right?), but I've always got it done. Remember, at the time I was desperate for quick cash, and I was busy with work. As I've said above, my future auctions will not meet the same fate as this one.

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Matrix_Holder

when the auction that I bid on was ended early I found out that the seller relisted the item that same day with a higher buy it now price,( I was so pissed off) I emailed ebay and they investigated it and they made him honor my last bid.

Can you explain how it works? Because I don't see how Ebay could do that since there would be no proof that the auction has successfully ended, no "YOU WON" email, nothing to redirect you or the seller to a feedback to leave, etc. Validating an auction that didn't go the full duration doesn't make much sense. I can't see how Ebay could legally turn a regular auction into a BIN either without the seller's consentment.

[Matrix_Holder]

The auction was for a complete pretender bumblebee.
It ended with less than 10 min left and the final bid was my bid of under 5 bucks. I contacted the seller and they gave me the BIN link, it was over $50 plus shipping. I asked him what the hell was going on, he said grow up.
Ebay said that they would look into it, a few days later I received a message from the seller stating that he would honor my final bid for the figure. Maybe he had felt bad for ending it early or maybe ebay had something to do with it , I was pissed off and felt "that's what you get to messin with me".
The important thing was that I got the figure. Ebay auctions are a gamble, sometimes the seller loses by not getting a price they wanted. Hell...that's happened to me a few times and it stings but that's the risk of using ebay.
I ended up trading the BB for a bunch of beast wars figures.

[Pascal]

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/end_...l#requirements

Ebay rules. He had to sell it to you since you were the highest bidder. Were you able to leave him feedback after?

[Matrix_Holder]

That's good to know. That shoots the whole "the goodness of his heart/ it's the right thing to do" theory out the window, lol.

I didn't even bother with feedback, I knew he would give me a negative if I left a negative and I didn't want that since the account was still new and had few transactions on it, plus it was my sisters account.

[Cliffjumper69]

Originally Posted by onecoin

Thanks, but you do not owe any of us an explanation. You're choice to sell your item, was your own with your own justification and should be respected.

As usual I dont agree with you at all again lol That auction shouldnt have been closed due to the local sale, the seller should have bitten the bullet and told the local buyer to bid on it on ebay and meet the local buyer IF he won the auction. (The local buyer could have gotten lucky and got it for a lower price)

Its none of my business but its still unfair to put something up on ebay and cancel the auction because he found a local seller to BIN. The auction in question should have had a BIN if that was his intent. With ebay, you can get lucky and have people get into a bidding war and shoot said auction's final price to more then you expected.

I cant say that was the intent of the auction, but if you really wanted to sell it, the B/S/T thread on cy.ca and or TFW would have worked out nicely without the mess that followed this auction. Once something is up on ebay it should stay up, no ifs ans or buts about it.

Im sorry for the rant, and Im not flaming anyone, but this type of thing really grinds my gears lol


CJ