A seller can cancel any individual bidder's bid (s--all bids by that bidder on that auction are removed) at any time until the auction ends.
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 may 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).
I'm assuming you mean that the seller 'cancelled' a bid. 🙂
I'm very sorry this happened. Unfortunately, eBay has no legal way to force a seller to ship (or a buyer to pay). All it can do is penalize members who violate the rules.
While you are able to leave the seller bad feedback for what they did ... it may hurt you with future sellers if you did so. I probably would let it go and move on regretfully.
woodland_gnome
·3 years agoA seller can cancel any individual bidder's bid (s--all bids by that bidder on that auction are removed) at any time until the auction ends.
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 may 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).
house*of*paws
Mentor3 years agoHi @miclob-44
I'm assuming you mean that the seller 'cancelled' a bid. 🙂
I'm very sorry this happened. Unfortunately, eBay has no legal way to force a seller to ship (or a buyer to pay). All it can do is penalize members who violate the rules.
While you are able to leave the seller bad feedback for what they did ... it may hurt you with future sellers if you did so. I probably would let it go and move on regretfully.