Canceling listing

[tayand89]

Hello, I listed an item for sale and I didn't see an option to set the amount of minimum money required to sell my item. It only sold for $2 and I want to cancel the order. I do not want to ship anything to where I only receive $2 in return.

[printpeople]

Your time on eBay will be very short if you don't honor your auctions.  Take this one as a loss, as you didn't study before writing an auction.... If you sell on eBay, you must learn to list at the least that you're willing to sell it for. 

[albertabrightalberta]

You should have started the bidding at the lowest price you were willing to let the item go for. 

As a brand new seller, a -1 feedback score from an unhappy buyer combined with a canceled sale won't look good on your account! 

This is an inexpensive lesson. Learn from it.

[janet9988]

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@tayand89 wrote:

Hello, I listed an item for sale and I didn't see an option to set the amount of minimum money required to sell my item. It only sold for $2 and I want to cancel the order. I do not want to ship anything to where I only receive $2 in return.

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It was the starting bid amount that you typed in.

[downunder-61]

You started at 0.99c and I imagine eBay suggested that - they really need to remove that rubbish from their pages as it is totally ridiculous.

As advised above you start your listing at an amount you would be happy with and then if you only get one bid you will be satisfied.

velvet@ebay  Any chance eBay could delete this silly advice from their help pages, eBay is no longer the hot auction site it used to be years ago and advising seller's to start a bid so low is detrimental especially to new seller's who actually expect eBay know what they are talking about.

[adnisul_0]

once you have set the starting price that is the lowest price you want!! And here is one glass wrong by a mile but your solution I do not agree with!!

[keraz-0]

Your shipping for that lot of action figures seem high

[aproudparent2010]

The minimum is what you put in as the starting bid...these could have sold for only 99 cents.

Your high shipping should help out some

Just ship the item and you will know for next time.

[kensgiftshop]

@tayand89 

You started the auction at $0.99.

Why didn't you start it at the price you wanted?

[velvet@ebay]

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@downunder-61 wrote:

You started at 0.99c and I imagine eBay suggested that - they really need to remove that rubbish from their pages as it is totally ridiculous.

As advised above you start your listing at an amount you would be happy with and then if you only get one bid you will be satisfied.

velvet@ebay  Any chance eBay could delete this silly advice from their help pages, eBay is no longer the hot auction site it used to be years ago and advising seller's to start a bid so low is detrimental especially to new seller's who actually expect eBay know what they are talking about.

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Hi @downunder-61! I just created drafts for auctions on both the site and app and I don't show where we prefill in that info. The fields are blank and you have to enter an amount. Please let me know where we're suggesting $0.99 start bids and I'll be happy to pass this feedback on.

You're right though, unless a seller is using a reserve feature because they know they have a hot item, it's best to start the bidding out at the amount they're willing to let it go for so they don't run into issues like this.  

[luckythewinner]

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@tayand89 wrote:

Hello, I listed an item for sale and I didn't see an option to set the amount of minimum money required to sell my item. It only sold for $2 and I want to cancel the order. I do not want to ship anything to where I only receive $2 in return.

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That is not how eBay works - auctions sales are not "optional" for the seller. When an auction ends with a winning bid, you sell it for that winning bid. 

It is not your buyer's fault that you listed the starting price at 99 cents instead of at the minimum you wanted to get. 

[blue.bird-official · Accepted solution]

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@tayand89 wrote:

Hello, I listed an item for sale and I didn't see an option to set the amount of minimum money required to sell my item. It only sold for $2 and I want to cancel the order. I do not want to ship anything to where I only receive $2 in return.

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Need to read policies first. You can cancel a auction but it  will be recorded and it may affect you. Learn from this one and take it as a loss.

You can list your item in fixed format in a fixed price. ( including shipping rates and the profit you need). Also you can list your item in auction format as well. Here the starting amount must be different according to you. You can start getting bids. Not only that but also you can set a reserved price in this format, but sorry to tell you it applies a fee. ($5 I guess).    

[tayand89]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I will have to start the bidding higher on my next listings.

Hopefully I can still ship the item out and get it to the buyer.