Yet another change - 3th in two days - Has bids & BIN

[steve_stuff]

Noticed this when pricing something.

I'm hoping the next unannounced change is Turbo Lister 3 - even take a Mr Lister 2.

[wastingtime101]

That's not new at all. There are some categories where the BIN sticks around until bidding reaches 50% of the BIN price.

[luckythewinner]

Yet another change - 3th in two days - Has bids & BIN 

Some categories do not remove the BIN until the current bid price exceeds a certain percentage of the BIN amount. This has been a feature of eBay for many years.

The threshold varies by category. So although there may have been a change to the threshold for that category, the mechanism itself is not new.

[steve_stuff]

OK, never seen it before so new to us.

[nobody*s_perfect]

The 4 categories in which the BIN option remains available until the bidding reaches 50% of the BIN price are:

1. Parts & Accessories (eBay Motors)
2. Tickets
3. Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
4. Cell Phones & PDAs

Many years ago eBay tried to drop the experiment with "sticky BINs", but the programming failed and they never got it fixed. Just to make things even more confusing, when these Help pages were revised a few years ago, those details about categories were replaced by this uselessly vague statement: "In some categories, the Buy It Now option may continue to be available after the first bid for a limited time."

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/selling-buy-now?id=4109

[chapeau-noir]

3th is like 4rd?

(Sorry, couldn't help it).

eBay's help pages can be woefully out of date.

[a_c_green]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

Just to make things even more confusing, when these Help pages were revised a few years ago, those details about categories were replaced by this uselessly vague statement: "In some categories, the Buy It Now option may continue to be available after the first bid for a limited time."

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/selling-buy-now?id=4109

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Well, to be fair, sometimes you're tasked with maintaining pages for a topic requiring in-depth knowledge that you simply don't have, so you resort to vague wording that isn't provably either right or wrong. 😉

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@a_c_green wrote: ... to be fair, sometimes you're tasked with maintaining pages for a topic requiring in-depth knowledge that you simply don't have, so you resort to vague wording that isn't provably either right or wrong. 

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But maintenance should not involve removing information that was already available. The details were there in the original Help page, but those tasked with the new formatting apparently chose not to refer to them.  And "to be fair," shouldn't those tasked with updating the HELP pages do their best not to lose information?  They could have just copied and pasted the text. 

[a_c_green]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

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@a_c_green wrote: ... to be fair, sometimes you're tasked with maintaining pages for a topic requiring in-depth knowledge that you simply don't have, so you resort to vague wording that isn't provably either right or wrong. 

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But maintenance should not involve removing information that was already available. The details were there in the original Help page, but those tasked with the new formatting apparently chose not to refer to them.  And "to be fair," shouldn't those tasked with updating the HELP pages do their best not to lose information?  They could have just copied and pasted the text. 

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Absolutely. At minimum, some kind of trial-and-error testing could clarify how the current setup worked in different categories. 

I was being a little sarcastic in the previous reply. I spent decades in QA and Tech Support and wrote plenty of documentation, so I can generally spot weasel-wording in the Help pages pretty quickly.