Can a listing be closed with one bid if I have accepted an offer from another ebayer?

[sdannydub]

Hello eBay community.

I have listed an item for sale. One bid has been placed on the item but I have already accepted an offer from another eBayer.

Can I close the auction early and send and invoice with the accepted offer to the eBayer?

I am a bit worried about how much the fees will be if I do this.

How can I end the auction early without having to pay additional selling fees?

I can't add a best offer now and if I cancel eBay may still charge a selling fee? I could cancel and relist with a best offer but may end up paying double charges.

Can somebody help?

[m25jet]

In order to avoid ending up in this mess again, if you wish to ilst an item and include the Best Offer function then set the listing up as a Buy It Now listing, rather than as an Auction listing.  If you use the Best Offer on anything advertised using the auction format then the Best Offer option will vanish as soon as the first bid is placed, in which case you cannot reinstate the Best Offer function, nor can you accept any Best Offers you may have received prior to the bid being placed.

If you do decide to set up a listing using the Buy It Now format with the Best Offer option included then use the Advanced Selling Form to set up the listing, as you can do far more with it.  Once you've set the Buy It Now price set the Best Offer function up to automatically accept offers equal to, or higher than, the minimum amount that you want for the item, making sure that the function to automatically reject offers is set 1p below the lowest price you'd automatically accept.  If you do that then if somebody makes a Best Offer anything that's too low to be worth considering will be automatically rejected, whereas any offers equal to, or higher than, the minimum amount that you'd be willing to accept would be automatically accepted.  If you left an amount between the highest amount to automatically reject and the lowest amount to automatically accept then any offers falling into that price range would have to be considered manually, in which case you would have to choose whether to manually accept, counteroffer, reject or ignore the offer.

In the event that somebody decided to commit to buying the item using the Buy It Now option he/she would end up paying the full asking price for the item and once the buyer had made payment for the item all you'd need to do would be to post the item out to its new owner, making sure that you entered the tracking number as soon as possible after posting the item so that both the buyer and eBay can see that you have despatched the item within your stated despatch times.