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Cancellation of listing
Can I cancel a listing?
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Can I cancel a listing?
woodland_gnome
·3 years agoYou can generally "end a listing" (see your list of active listings) but there are some limitations, especially for auctions that have ever had a bid.
It is specifically against the rules for a seller to cancel all bids and end the auction early without a winner IF it is because s/he deliberately set the Starting Price lower than s/he was willing to sell for, and it hasn't reached that high. This is considered fee avoidance because eBay charges a substantial fee for sellers to have a Reserve Price so they aren't promising to sell as low as their Starting Price.
But there are legitimate reasons* why a seller would have to do so, and a few years ago eBay got tired of having to divine the subjective intent of a seller who took that action, so it adopted some procedures that make it less attractive to do so with that intention: it can only be done before the countdown reaches 12 hours AND it charges a fee (the FVF% for that seller in that category times the highest cancelled bid) when s/he does so (with the first such fee per calendar year waived to allow for the very occasional legitimate reason for doing so).
*ETA: An error in the description and especially title is a valid reason. Where you have made a significant mistake like misidentifying the variation of a valuable vintage collectible you should seriously consider taking the hit on the fee (or using up your one annual freebie) and cancelling the bid and ending early without a winner for an error in the listing, rather than expecting the bidders (especially the one who already bid) to find the correction addendum at the bottom of the description, especially when the mistake is in the title.