topic Problem with unwanted Buy It Now option in 'Auction' sale listing in Seller Central

topic Problem with unwanted Buy It Now option in 'Auction' sale listing in Seller Central https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/Problem-with-unwanted-Buy-It-Now-option-in-Auction-sale-listing/m-p/7958070#M762195 I have sold items on ebay for probably 20 years or so, but when going to list a few things now I am having a problem that I can’t figure out. If anyone can tell me what I am clearly missing, I would be SUPERDUPER grateful. Here’s what‘s I’m running in to, should be a Fairy Story but it is a nightmare ...  I am not interested in a Buy It Now option for any sale, so select the correct category and enter the type of sale as ‘Auction’ not ‘Fixed Price/B.I.N.‘ Enter listing title fine, photos fine, details and description all fine. Price next, enter a starting price, fine. Next is a B.I.N. price box, which I hadn’t expected to be there with ‘Auction’ selected. More, it already contained a random B.I.N. price, which was entirely wrong price-wise for my item anyway.  So I needed it gone. It was labelled as optional, but there was no delete/deselect button so I deleted the price it contained, assuming that it wouldn’t then appear when live if blank. I then went on via postage, start date/time, etc to complete the listing. All fine, then I clicked ‘Preview’ to check for errors/corrections if any, and to see how it looked. It contained a B.I.N. option for buyers, and at that stupid-price. Hmmmmm ... I deleted B.I.N. price, went to ‘Preview’ again and B.I.N. was back showing in preview again. And it was also back when I went to check the listing form again, though I then didn’t bother editing/reviewing again and instead deleted the whole thing and began to create a new listing. I took my time to make sure I wasn’t missing any setting-up steps/options. But the listing form still contained that B.I.N. step despite being set up as ‘Auction’, and was still with a no-sense price already inserted so I changed that to blank again and completed the listing to preview. Same thing happened again, not-wanted B.I.N. again.  This time however I noticed that by the ‘Price’ section on the listing form there was a small Past Price comparison-panel that had automatically been populated with particulars of some past sales of the same or similar items, which also included a Recommended Price. AND it was THAT price that had been entered in the unwanted B.I.N. box. As a double check I repeated all of this yesterday with a completely different item I want to sell, with exactly the same problem result. As a triple check I did the same this morning with a third sale item, and it still ended up with a B.I.N. option-that-isn’t, and still with its own ideas of what price needed to be entered there! Since then I have been searching online to see what I am missing, and have found tons of how-to guides and pointers etc but they are 100% saying the key is always select ‘Auction’ instead of ‘Fixed price/B.I.N.’, and delete any figure that is in the B.I.N. price box if there happens to be one, and then B.I.N. will not be in the listing. MORE  IMPORTANTLY  I can find no way of deactivating the Past Prices comparison panel and the resulting suggested price which seems to be triggering the unwanted appearances of B.I.N. at all ...  if the price comparison panel was not there, probably the recommended price would not be available either and then the B.I.N. price box would not appear in the listing because it had not been given anything to enter/display. Maybe? But it is there, and simply keeps getting entered automatically in to the B.I.N. box as a wrong/stupid/NOT-WANTED B.I.N. price that then gets displayed!   Aaaaaaaannnndddd  I am now much too close to this to be able to see what I am missing. All I want is a simple straightforward auction with no B.I.N., exactly the same as I have been able to do easily in just a minute or two on probably hundreds of occasions over a couple of decades. I went to list my new items on Weds morning, it’s now coming up to Sat eve and dark outside too! Anyone shine a light, please? Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:11:59 GMT goc5 2025-11-15T17:11:59Z