Quick eBay Question

NBirdy

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me! I'm listing an item on eBay, and have been messaging with a buyer who wants to Buy It Now. We've agreed a price but in the middle of all this someone else has placed a 99p bid. I would like to sell it to the person I've been messaging with but not sure if I still can? I don't want to just remove the other person's bid as that seems unfair, and I don't want to sell outside of eBay either.

Is there some way I can do this or not?

mrcol1000

If someone has bidded you can cancel their bid. I am not sure if you can add a buy it now price after. If someone has bidded then I just say to the person who wants the buy it now price that ebay rules stop you from putting a buy it now price and you wish them good luck bidding. You might get more if you sell off Ebay or you might get less. Its the luck of the draw. The person wanting the buy it now price might be trying to get it now cheap before its bidded up to its true value.
Its just a gamble. Do you leave it and see how much its bidded up to or do you just take the money being offered and run.

piratefairy

If you decide to sell to the guy who messages, go into selling manager and end the item, making sure you check the cancel all bids option, then relist, but on the advanced lister so that you can put it up as buy it now at the price you agreed with the other guy. Ebay will have saved the info etc for the item, in your unsold items, and it's easy to change the format, but by going through this way you are covered.

pinkshoes

If they want it that badly, why don't they just bid on it?

NBirdy

I don't know, but I sold another one the same a couple of weeks ago and it only made a 1/4 of what the buyer is offering, so I'm happy to sell it to them! It's nothing rare or interesting, and I know what it usually sells for.

piratefairy

i had a similar one recently, bought an item of clothing and lost the receipt so couldn't take it back, although it didnt' fit and is still in stores and online. listed it for a week, got 39 watchers within the first day, but with 1.5 days left there was only £1.04 on it..so i thought perhaps i would relist another time or give it as a present to a friend instead. so i ended the listing, cancelled the bids, and within an hour had about 8msgs asking if i could sell as a buy it now, in the end i thought why not, listed BIN £14 and it sold and was paid for within minutes. so kinda used the auction as a market-tester..worked well.