ending ebay auction early?? help please

[annsteere]

Since many of us are ebabying our way to Disney, I figure you guys will know.

I have a dressy wool coat listed on auction. This morning I got an email asking me if I would end the auction early and sell to a woman who wants the coat before this weekend for a special event. She does not want to meet my "buy it now price" but is willing to negotiate a price. I check past history and think it is unlikely that the auction will go as high as the buy it now that I set.

Is it "illegal" to end early? Will it damage my ebay reputation?

If I decide to end early how do I do it and how will the payment go? (Can I just pull the auction and take the money from her directly? Or, is that cheating ebay and I need to do something morecomplicated)

THANKS for your help.

 

[LilMamiBella]

As long as know one has bidded on your auction, then yes you can end it.

 

[Microcell]

If there are bids on it then I wouldn't do it, but if no bids, then you could maybe talk turkey. Is anyone watching the item? If you have a bunch of watchers I would be hesitent too.

 

[elmonshea]

to end it early you do this.....
on the home page at the top. click on site map
Next:
In the middle collum under Manage My Items for Sale , it says End my listing. Click on that and type in your auction #.
Hope this helps.

 

[my3kids]

If you agree on a price, you could revise your acution's Buy It Now price to the agree upon price, then she sould exercise the buy it now option.

 

[disneychrista]

This is against ebay rules. This is considered fee circumvention. If you got caught you could be suspended from ebay.

You can however go in and edit your BIN price to whatever you want (assuming their are no bids). Then this interested party can "buy it now" and end the auction.

 

[LadyTrampScamp&Angel]

yes, it is illegal as far as ebay is concerned. As a prior poster stated you are getting around paying the final value fees to ebay and the person who contacted you is guility of auction interference. I would think it wouldn't be so against ebay rules if you changed your buy it now price and she purchased it that way - although side deals are still a no-no according to ebay (I guess what I'm trying to say is that seems like it would be a lesser offense and I don't think you'd get into a lot of trouble for that).

Honestly, every time someone has asked me to do that I've said no and ended up selling my item for more than the person who contacted me was willing to pay. I really hate to see people do this as I really hate for people to ask me to do it - waste of my time 'cause I won't. I now include a blurb in my auctions advising "please don't ask me to end my auction early . . ." If I'd done it - not once would it have worked to my advantage and besides I intend to sell on ebay for a long time and don't really want to take any chances. Just think, all you have to do is make some buyer angry after the sale about something and they could turn you, with your emails as proof, into ebay - and then you're suspended. Granted the buyer would probably have to implicate themselves as well but you don't know who that person is -there are a lot of crazy buyers out there (just check ebay's community boards for crazy buyer stories!).

A LOT of people will wait until the auction is about to end to bid also.

OK, just my 2 cents . . .

Have a good day.

 

[CheapMom]

4 times in the past 3 months I have had people request a Buy It Now price for my auctions. I just tell them that I am sorry but it isn't a BIN auction. One of the items was some kind of collectible and I was unaware of its value. I was about to send it to Good Will but decided to list it for .99 for the heck of it. The 3rd day (when the price was around $3) someone offered me $20 for the item and to end the auction. I said no because I think its shady when someone asks you to go around eBay but I thought I was going to lose money. It ended up closing for $60.00.
I would let the auction run its course if I were you.

 

[disneymom3]

I wouldn't do it. If she really wants the coat that much she should just pay the BIN price. I am not a difficult person in "real life" but on ebay I am a lot less flexible. There are too many pain in the neck people in the world, and I stick to my auction terms. At the MOST I would lower the BIN price, but at what YOU think it should go for, not what this person says she wants to pay.