Acceptable policy?

[tf2001]

I bid on a usb zip drive, my bid was cancelled, the reason 'item no longer available'.

When I look at the sellers page there is an identical item, that wasn't there yesterday, starting at £35 (the original was starting at £20).

It looks very like the seller has removed the original item and re-added it at a considerably higher price after receiving a bid that he/she didn't like.

Is that acceptable behaviour?

I only just came back to ebay, I had an account from 2001 to 2019 and hadn't ever seen this.

[john1297576 · Accepted solution]

Not acceptable behaviour, it is up to sellers to start at a price they are happy to sell at.

Seller will find that they still pay a 10% selling fee.

Did you actually win or did the seller end early, if you were the winning bidder you would still be able to leave feedback.

Unfortunately this sort of behaviour is not uncommon. Sellers start at 99p and then get upset because they only get one bid. Ebay is not like it was when you first started.

[tf2001 · Accepted solution]

Hi, they ended it early and then an almost identical item ar almost twice the price appeared on their list. It won’t let me upload a photo for some reason keeps saying permission denied.

[tf2001 · Accepted solution]

I can’t save feedback yet as I just recreated my account. I had an account 2001 to 2019 then closed it as they didn’t offer 2FA. Recreated it a few days ago but of course can’t restore my original one so it thinks I am new. Pretty shabby behaviour on the seller’s part I thought.