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Seller constantly cancels auction a day from close
this seller has cancelled this item 4 times that he puts for auction at starting bid of .99 cents . It is the. Relisted and again cancels it. They sell for around $20 buy it now, eBay has no avenue to complain about it. Anyone know where to let eBay know of this ?
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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).
eburtonlab
Mentor1 year agoSounds like a seller to avoid. Did you notice the location shown on the seller's profile?
Some items are better purchased outright as a buy-it-now item, rather than chasing a 99 cent auction.