How to cancel an eBay item when someone has bid on it?

JustAnotherSaver

How can you tell the legit ones from the scam sites?


I keep trying to advise my brother against getting in to a bid war. I've been there myself and paid way over the odds so i try advise him against making the same mistake. Going back & forth when there's 5 days still to go on a listing & you're going to have internet access each day is a silly game to play (my opinion).



I just did a Google search and found "Gixen" as top listed site. https://www.gixen.com/index.php legit?

JustAnotherSaver

What's the situation with the 'best offer' feature? Do you have to pay for it? I'm pretty sure you used to have to pay extra for that. I just ticked the box to include it on my listing and the insertion fee remained £0.00.


If someone wins the auction having used the best offer feature does it add extra on to the final value fees (or just do you get charged in any way shape or form for this feature)?

mgdavid

there's no extra charge for Best Offer.
The FVF is just the standard fee %age of the sale price plus postage/shipping. (I now always list as Free Postage and just add the postage cost onto my BIN price.)

jeffuk

They get 4 days to pay from when you open non payment case.

JustAnotherSaver

This is turning in to my eBay question thread lol


I've just bought an item this week - a music CD.


Story short, at least 1 of the tracks is skipping - so the CD must be damaged.


I've contacted the seller to start the process of returning it and then i get this message once i click return...

You received a refund



This return is completeGood news. Since you're a regular buyer on eBay and a valued customer, we've issued a £3.31 refund to your PayPal account. You can keep the item too. PayPal transaction

So i don't even need to return it. All seems very strange. Why keep something that i've said is faulty? What about the seller? They're without item and i assume money as well now. Just seems wrong to me.

mgdavid

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

This is turning in to my eBay question thread lol

I've just bought an item this week - a music CD.
Story short, at least 1 of the tracks is skipping - so the CD must be damaged.
I've contacted the seller to start the process of returning it and then i get this message once i click return...

So i don't even need to return it. All seems very strange. Why keep something that i've said is faulty? What about the seller? They're without item and i assume money as well now. Just seems wrong to me.

I'm guessing it's a volume trade seller who doesn't want the item back as they can't sell it again (as it's faulty) so they just refund and move on.