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