Ebay charging to end auction listing now.

[Nickleanddime]

Messed up.a auction tonight that revising wouldn't allow me to fix. So figured I'd just end it then fix realist. Nope got a message that if you end more then one auction a Calender year there will be a fee. Part of the new fleece by eBay's new CEO? I don't know much more I'm off to.amazon.

 

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[cyberdan]

I have ended several and never an extra charge. I wonder if it is something very new.

 

[Nickleanddime]

Yes very new ended one yesturday 2 times and never seen it come up. I guess I have to try harder to change the auction length to 5 days.

 

[dumpsterdiver]

The last time I checked it was only if you already had a bid on the item.

 

[clovis97]

I've ended five auctions in the past week. No fees for me, either.

 

[Silver Searcher]

I end auctions all the time, never been billed once, but I never list my auctions on a bidding start, always buy it now, with best offer.

SS

 

[Nickleanddime]

Well I checked again and it came up the same way. The item hasn't even been looked at other then the eBay Gestapo. Like I said last night was the first time its ever happen to me also.

It said this. For the sastifactiin of our customers if you have ended aauction this Calender year you may be charged end listing fees for auctions.

 

[Nickleanddime]

Ending a listing early
There's the link to the page about those fees. Funny thing is this is my 4th auction only this year. I runBins only, seems no one ever wants to pay on auctions for me.

EBay I getting wonky with me this month. So.ce the first of may my discounted shipping is no more, no more free listings, pay pal and eBay fees went up, and now this. Thing is I have 100% feedback, great standing on my sellers account and I always ship inside my handling time. And I only sell $40 items and up, so I don't know what their doing.

 

[Iron Patch]

I'd blame all the sellers who end listings early before I'd blame the CEO. Most on here sell a lot more than buy, but as both I can tell you it ticks me off seeing something I'm waiting to bid on leave the top of my watch list, than it would for paying a small fee to end something early.... especially if it helps prevent sellers from doing it so much. People are quick to complain about buyers playing games on here too, well the sellers also do what they can get away with, and when it gets out of hand that's when ebay takes it upon their self, and no doubt it's also seizing the opportunity to attach a fee to something. But if no sellers did this, ebay wouldn't do it. I'm assuming store listings are excluded from this, but if they're not, now that would be stupid because running a store you have to juggle things a whole lot more.

 

[mkulltra]

You only pay a few if there is a bid on the item.

 

[GibH]

I'd blame all the sellers who end listings early before I'd blame the CEO. Most on here sell a lot more than buy, but as both I can tell you it ticks me off seeing something I'm waiting to bid on leave the top of my watch list, than it would for paying a small fee to end something early.... especially if it helps prevent sellers from doing it so much. People are quick to complain about buyers playing games on here too, well the sellers also do what they can get away with, and when it gets out of hand that's when ebay takes it upon their self, and no doubt it's also seizing the opportunity to attach a fee to something. But if no sellers did this, ebay wouldn't do it. I'm assuming store listings are excluded from this, but if they're not, now that would be stupid because running a store you have to juggle things a whole lot more.

I call BS. That's like buying into their supposed reasoning about adding the final value fee to shipping. Ebay adds fees for one reason, and it isn't because of sellers working within the existing rules. Regardless of how you feel about having items you are waiting to bid on being pulled, there is absolutely no reason a seller should not be able to end a listing early if there are no bids. If you want the item, put a bid on it. If you're waiting to snipe it for the cheapest price possible, well that's on you. No bid, no contract, no foul.

 

[Paleo_joe]

I think that fees "May" be charged.

And I dunno, an "up to seven day" auction and a "seven day" auction seem to be logically two different things.

Although I think ebay might very well increase sales if a typical auction lasted an unknown amount of time determined by the seller! As a buyer, I never bid until the last seconds.

 

[Nickleanddime]

The main thing is its your item to pull. If you run something for 5 days and have 4 views I'm pulling it to put another item up.

If your watching it put a bid on it.

This is a business, telling someone they can't do something with their product is not right. Its like the gov telling the local grocer they have to let the item sit on the shelf until its rotten or pay a fee. America is a free enterprise country, and no one has any right to.tell a free citizen how to.run their business.

 

[vwayne1]

The main thing is its your item to pull. If you run something for 5 days and have 4 views I'm pulling it to put another item up. If your watching it put a bid on it. This is a business, telling someone they can't do something with their product is not right. Its like the gov telling the local grocer they have to let the item sit on the shelf until its rotten or pay a fee. America is a free enterprise country, and no one has any right to.tell a free citizen how to.run their business.

yes, but we are not contracting to sell these items with the government, we are selling them through a business (eBay). They have done their work by providing a place for us to sell our items. When we end that agreement by ending auction early, we have utilized their time and money and they have not financially benefited from the transaction. Just another way to look at it. And yes, I am very thankful for eBay. I have been doing this for most of my life, and nothing has ever been this easy, cheap and lucrative as eBay. Bar none.

 

[Silver Searcher]

As a business seller I list all my items on a BIN with best offer available, all are 30 day listings, it's not my problem if I end a auction early because I have sold it off site, the price is there to see, and offers available.It's amazing how many folk watch something they want for days, and then whine when it's been removed.

SS

 

[Iron Patch]

I call BS. That's like buying into their supposed reasoning about adding the final value fee to shipping. Ebay adds fees for one reason, and it isn't because of sellers working within the existing rules. Regardless of how you feel about having items you are waiting to bid on being pulled, there is absolutely no reason a seller should not be able to end a listing early if there are no bids. If you want the item, put a bid on it. If you're waiting to snipe it for the cheapest price possible, well that's on you. No bid, no contract, no foul.

Call it what you want, a seller shouldn't be able to play games, and if you read above "You only pay a few if there is a bid on the item." ... so there's no valid reason to complain. And I guess selling a $5 item and charging $20 to ship to save on fees made sense and should have been left alone. The buyers and sellers create the environment, and as I said if you give ebay the chance to correct it and make money, they'll do it.

 

[Iron Patch]

The main thing is its your item to pull. If you run something for 5 days and have 4 views I'm pulling it to put another item up.

If your watching it put a bid on it.

This is a business, telling someone they can't do something with their product is not right. Its like the gov telling the local grocer they have to let the item sit on the shelf until its rotten or pay a fee. America is a free enterprise country, and no one has any right to.tell a free citizen how to.run their business.

Yes, if you're watching put a bid on it, but that's the problem... people bid and the seller just cancels it, because they can. That's what this is about.

 

[Nickleanddime]

Alright I think I.used the wrong example earlier I was having one of my swings.

Here's a more close to.home thing for most guy.

The ending auction early fee is like a flea market or consignment shop making you keep your item there or charging you a fee to take it back out.
You'd pull your items.

And I'm not talking about the rent or selling fee, I'm talking about a removal fee. Its their shop they can charge any fee they want.


If you had that happen would you just say oh well? I think not. EBay doesn't get as much final cost fees from me as some of you guys. But they get enough for this to fall Into the BS fee pile.

And the fee they charge is equal total final cost fee, not just a base fee like .50 cents.

Well guy good luck.out there and as always its been fun hearing your opinions.

 

[GibH]

Call it what you want, a seller shouldn't be able to play games, and if you read above "You only pay a few if there is a bid on the item." ... so there's no valid reason to complain. And I guess selling a $5 item and charging $20 to ship to save on fees made sense and should have been left alone. The buyers and sellers create the environment, and as I said if you give ebay the chance to correct it and make money, they'll do it.

Left what alone? The problem with your reasoning is that there were already rules against fee avoidance. Ebay could easily have weeded these sellers out with a zero tolerance policy. The big difference is they wouldn't have made any money doing that.