Help! forgot to put on a reserve!

VLT

My brother in law has put quite a few items on e bay but has not set a reserve price and most of the things he is wanting quite a bit for £50.+.
Is there anyway he can get out of selling these things as some already have bids on for very little i.e 99p.
They all end tonight so any advice would be appreciated.

frivolous_fay

He should end the listing, if he still has time. If it's too late, things are going to get awkward.

liam8282

You could cheat and get a friend or family member to bid on the items to bump up the price. However if your friend / family member wins, you will still have to pay ebay the selling costs and relist the items with the reserves you want and effectively pay the costs twice, but at least you don't let your items go for less than you want.

mountainchrisriver

liam8282 wrote: »

You could cheat and get a friend or family member to bid on the items to bump up the price. However if your friend / family member wins, you will still have to pay ebay the selling costs and relist the items with the reserves you want and effectively pay the costs twice, but at least you don't let your items go for less than you want.

Shill bidding... not the right approach... :rolleyes:


http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/basics/f-shilling.html

VLT

Thanks for the advice guys, he's decided to let the auctions run their course which i think he could be making a big mistake, as he wants about £140 for one item and its on a starting price of 99p with only one watcher!

charlottevwa

liam8282 wrote: »

You could cheat and get a friend or family member to bid on the items to bump up the price. However if your friend / family member wins, you will still have to pay ebay the selling costs and relist the items with the reserves you want and effectively pay the costs twice, but at least you don't let your items go for less than you want.

no no no no no no !!!!

do not do this

charlottevwa

VLT wrote: »

Thanks for the advice guys, he's decided to let the auctions run their course which i think he could be making a big mistake, as he wants about £140 for one item and its on a starting price of 99p with only one watcher!

you may be surprised how much he gets... most bids come in in the last 5 mins x

POSSETTE

If There Are No Bids On It..try To Revise Item And Put Up Starting Price To £50 At Least..thats What I Had To Do..

adouglasmhor

Whats his ebay name so I can have a look what he is selling

LuciferTDark

A seller whose item I was bidding on yesterday canceled all the bids & revised the item, so it's possible even with bids. No idea how they did it though.

durham_girl

LuciferTDark wrote: »

A seller whose item I was bidding on yesterday canceled all the bids & revised the item, so it's possible even with bids. No idea how they did it though.

I think you can only do that when there is more then 12 hours to go.