finishing an auction early

foxybabe

I have an item on ebay at the moment and i have had three people ask me if i would finish it early and they would buy it now. I didn't think you were allowed to do this. If you can do it how would i go about it? I have about 20 people watching but no bids at the moment. It still has five days to go. Any advice would be apreciated.

Many thanks

FloFlo

You could add the buy it now price to the auction and then they buy it now. Make sure that you get the price you want sounds as though there could be a fair bit of interest in your item might be interesting to say politely that you would rather let the auction continue an d wish them luck in their bidding.

Contains_Mild_Peril

If there's so much interest, I suspect you'd do better to let the auction run its course and hope for a bidding frenzy. Though these customers may have varoius reasons for wanting BIN (they might want the item for a particular date, e.g. if they want it as gift, for instance), the most likely reason is that they hope to get it cheaper than if the auction proceeds to its conclusion. You will also annoy the Hell out of other potential bidders of you sell it on BIN without warning!

starlight_xx

3 people have asked you to end it early?? You COULD but with that interest in it youd be daft to. Id let it run its course

mrsb_5

I actually do this quite often lol. IF you wanted to end an auction early, agree a price then ask the buyer to place a bid on the item so they are the highest bidder, then next to the item in your selling list, click on the box to get the option end item, then click on sell to highest bidder, and then adjust the invoice you send them by adding +1.69 in the sellers discount box - or whatever you need to add to get the agreed price lol

FloFlo

Always reply nicely to enquiries about ending the auction early even if you want to let the auction run its course - you want these people to bid.