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