How do you report a seller on eBay who is constantly ending their items?
Ok so this user
has recently posted a bunch of records for sale. I’ve followed 4 of the items I was interested in and noticed they ended them early. What is going on here? Is it just because they aren’t liking how cheap they’re going to sale for? How do I report this? I don’t think it’s fair that people are investing their time in bidding and having it end abruptly. At the same time, buyers have an obligation to pay and can suffer from negative reporting if they don’t hold their end up the bidding bargain.
The reason I want to report this is because I’m an eBayer and this sort of practice goes against the point of eBay, which is that the opportunity to bid and get items for cheap is what eBay is all about.
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Does the seller offer a buy now option? Maybe someone is taking advantage of it if so?
It would be foolish of a seller to end an auction early. In my experience with e-bay the vast majority of your increased price of sale comes in the last hour or so of the auction (often as much as 50% in the last minute).
You could just send a message to customer service at e-bay with the sellers ID. My guess is they probably keep track of sellers that do that anyways.
@tedd No these were pretty rare vinyl collections with no Buy It Now’s. There was about 25 listings. Some ended early and since I was watching a couple of the items it e-mails me right away. I apparently the user ended all items, or was reported already and might be suspended because none of the items are available anymore. The user even ended some early mid week.
@_Whitetigress You can report the listings each individually when they’re active. Looks like you’re correct…Here are his completed listings So, you can contact the seller and ask why they were cancelled, but unless you actually bid and he cancelled your bids, I don’t think customer service will do anything about this.
There are all sorts of reasons to choose as a seller to end items early. If you contact the seller you could find out if he sold them elsewhere, or if he’ll be relisting them.
I’ve had this happen to me recently, as well. I wrote down the names of the sellers and now refuse to bid/buy from them.
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