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Seller canceled my winning bid.
Seller canceled my winning bid on a Kate Spade Bag and relisted the item. There was no reserve price. I feel this is unfair practice? Is this allowed? If not, how can I get the item?
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myangelandmyprincess
Mentor1 year agoThe seller ended the listing early after cancelling bids. They would have been charged fees based on the highest bid cancelled. There isn't a way for you to get the item in this situation. You can watch for if it relists.
woodland_gnome
·1 year agoIt 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).