When and How to Cancel an eBay Auction Early

One day, for whatever reason, you might decide youThe Item is No Longer for Sale.
want to end one of your auctions early. Before youPerhaps you sold the item to someone else, you lost
do, though, you should carefully consider theit or it got broken. Whatever happened, if you no
ramifications of doing so because cancelling auctionslonger have the item to sell, you should remove your
can upset eBayers and upsets eBay, and there mightlisting. In fact, this is just about the only situation
be another way to get the result you are looking for.when eBay allows you to do this.
You will also still get charged the Insertion Fee, soHowever, you need to make sure you remove the
keep that in mind.listing quickly because if you leave it to the last 12
I Want to Change my Listing.hours, eBay will refuse to let you remove it, no
If you just want to revise your listing, you usuallymatter what your reason for wanting to remove it is.
won't have to end it. you can revise almost any listingThis might seem like cruel and unusual punishment,
that has more than 12 hours remaining and hasn'tbut this rule is there to stop people from backing out
received any bids. You can remove the Buy it Nowin the last few hours just because they want to get
price, remove the reserve price, change the durationa better price.
of the listing or add listing upgrades.So How Do I End My Listing Early?
If the listing already has at least one bid, then youYou can do it by going to this page: and simply type
can still add upgrades or make a change to thein the item number and hit the Continue button.
description. You can even add more pictures too, ifBe very careful at this point. The option you almost
you want to. Once the listing gets into its last 12certainly want to choose is 'Cancel bids and end listing
hours without a bid, what you can do becomes farearly' and not 'Sell item to high bidder and end listing
more limited. You can only really make a change toearly'. You'll be asked to choose a reason why you
the description in this case. And when the auction isended the listing and then your item will be cancelled.
in the last 12 hours and you have a bid, then youAny bidders you have will be emailed at this point to
can't even change the description.let them know what happened.
By the way, it's a very bad idea to cancel a listingRemember that ending a listing early because it
and ask your bidders to bid on another listing for thelooked like it wasn't going to get a good price is
same item instead. Chances are they'll be annoyedagainst the rules, and eBay could come after you and
with you and probably won't bother.get upset.