| If you're strongly considering ending an auction early, | | | | 2: "The Item is No Longer for Sale."Perhaps you sold |
| remember that cancelling auctions upsets buyers and | | | | the item to someone else, you lost it or it got |
| upsets eBay! So before you do anything, read this | | | | broken. Whatever happened, if you no longer have |
| article. There might be a better to way to get what | | | | the item to sell, you should remove your listing at |
| you want.Reason 1: "I Want to Change my Listing."If | | | | once. In fact, this is just about the only situation |
| you just want to revise your listing, you don't always | | | | when eBay allows you to. However, if you leave it to |
| need to end it. For listings that have more than 12 | | | | the last 12 hours, eBay will refuse to let you remove |
| hours left to run and haven't received any bids, you | | | | it, no matter what has happened. This might seem |
| can revise almost everything. You can remove the | | | | cruel, but keeps people from backing out in the last |
| Buy it Now price or reserve price, change the | | | | few hours because they want to try again for a |
| duration of the listing, or add listing upgrades.If the | | | | better price.If you still want to end your listing early, |
| listing already has one or more bids, you can still add | | | | be very careful. The option you almost certainly want |
| upgrades or add to the description. You can add | | | | to choose is "Cancel bids and end listing early" rather |
| more pictures too. Once the listing gets into its last | | | | then "Sell item to high bidder and end listing early.". |
| 12 hours, however, what you can do becomes far | | | | You'll be asked to choose a reason why you ended |
| more limited even if it has no bids. You can only | | | | the listing and then your bidders will be emailed to let |
| revise the description at this point.It's not a good idea | | | | them know what happened.Note that ending a listing |
| to cancel one listing and ask bidders to bid on | | | | early because it looked like it wasn't going to get a |
| another listing for the same item instead. Chances are | | | | good price is against the rules and a very upset eBay |
| they'll be annoyed with you and won't bother.Reason | | | | could come after you for this.Copyright 2006 J. |