How to sell individual items from a bundle

jpsartre

I've got a DVD bundle with several dozen discs up for sale on Ebay with a buy-it-now-price. A buyer has messaged me to ask if I'm willing to sell specific discs from the bundle. I'm fine with this, just not sure what's the best way to do it. Should I end the bundle listing and put up the discs he/she's interested in as a new listing or is there a more clever way to do this?

soolin

jpsartre said:

I've got a DVD bundle with several dozen discs up for sale on Ebay with a buy-it-now-price. A buyer has messaged me to ask if I'm willing to sell specific discs from the bundle. I'm fine with this, just not sure what's the best way to do it. Should I end the bundle listing and put up the discs he/she's interested in as a new listing or is there a more clever way to do this?

It’s probably easier to end the sale and just put up the smaller bundle that the buyer wants. however, and it’s a big however, there is a fairly high risk that if you do that then the bots will link the message and the cancelled listing and consider you are doing an off eBay sale, and that could risk your account being restricted.

It’s a bit convoluted, but one idea would be to revise but not end the listing , remove the titles that the buyer wants , revise the photos to remove them . Then start a new BIN auction with bundle of titles the buyer wants. The bots won’t see a cancelled auction, and hopefully the revision won’t trigger a warning. 

Perhaps someone else might have an idea of how to avoid getting a warning ? 

jpsartre

Thanks, that makes sense.

IftiBashir

Assuming you have no bids and its a BIN listing only, edit your current listing in order to change it and list only the DVDs the buyer is interested in. The buyer can then purchase as normal and you can list the remaining DVDs in a separate auction. 

kalsha

I would change the original listing, amending the title, the wording and photos.  This is especially beneficial if the original listing was done during the offer time.  If you end it and create a new listing, it will be not in the offer period.