@dumdrum69 wrote:
Hello, my account was hacked and suspended but was cleared up and my first post in 2 years resulted in a $120 mistake. I listed the an item with a $220 price and a starting bid of $99. As fate would have it my internet went down at the same time as the auction ended and I didn't catch my mistake. I will honor the sale but what did I do wrong? Is the price not the selling price?Thanks and I'll obviously be more careful.
Not sure if I would call it a mistake but maybe a misunderstanding: did you mean to set a $220 Reserve on it? If so, you would not have to sell and ship if bidding did not reach the Reserve price. I'm thinking that what you might have done instead was set a BuyItNow price of $220, but the BuyItNow price goes away when bids are received, and you got one bid at your opening price of $99. Thus your bidder won it fair and square.
In future, I would suggest not using a Reserve price (which can turn off some bidders who don't want to waste time trying to determine what it's set at), and just open the auction at whatever price you would accept if you only ever got one bid, and then every bid after that is gravy.
Finally, if this is an item with a commonly-accepted retail price, not a one of a kind or vintage piece, then just set up the listing to be Fixed Price rather than an auction, setting whatever price you want to get for it. Avoid the Make Offer option unless you like haggling, and then you can set the Immediate Payment Required on your price, and no one can snatch it off the market without actually paying you for it first.
