Query re ending an auction early with bids on it and realist with buy it now

[290453silu]

I listed an item a few days ago ( still got about 3 days to run) and immediately got loads of people wanting me to end the listing and offering to pay me immediately various amounts. I thanked them and said I would just run the auction as I am currently benefiting from the £1 final value fee offer from EBay on the listing.

One of the people who was “ in a hurry and needed the item quickly” has now bid on the item and bid more than he said he was prepared to. I am worried he is only doing this to upset my sale as I did not accept his offer. Another person has also bid and is currently the highest bidder. The bid is a good one which I am very happy to accept now.

what happens if I end the listing and realist it with buy it now for the person who is currently the highest bidder on my auction listing?I am happy to pay the fees on the final value of the person’s bid on the auction I would like to end but do not want to have to pay twice if I relist as a buy it now. Alternatively can I remove the bids from the person I am concerned about and if so does that then affect the bids the other person has made....all very complicated! I have just heard horror stories of people bidding up things to wreck sales. The item really is not worth much more than the current bid in it.

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[m25jet]

If the auction still has more than twelve hours left to run by the time you read this response and you are happy to cut the auction short and sell to the highest bidder then you can do so without breaching any of eBay's rules with regards to sell, and you won't even have to relist the item in order to sell it, so long as the person who is currently the highest bidder doesn't turn out to be a timewaster.

Should you decide to cut the auction short and sell to the highest bidder go to your All Selling page and locate the item in question.  Pull up the More Actions menu to the right of the item and select the option that says "Sell Item To High Bidder."  This option will not be available if the auction has less than twelve hours to go until the end; however, if there are twelve hours or more left on the auction then by following this advice you can cut the auction short and sell the item to the person who is currently the highest bidder.  That bidder would then receive a message on his/her My eBay page to inform him/her that he/she has won the auction and the winning bidder would then be required to make payment for the item.  There is nothing in eBay's rules relating to selling on eBay that says that you cannot do this, and by ending the current listing early to sell to the highest bidder it removes the need to relist the item again, as the bidder will soon see that he/she has won the auction when he/she next logs on, at which point he/she can then make payment for the item.  By following through with this option you will not have to worry about incurring a 10% fee of the highest bid from eBay for cancelling bids on a live auction, nor will there be any need to relist the item again if the winning bidder pays for the item after you have cut it short to sell the item to him/her.

Finally, one other thing to consider is that a lot of people hold off of bidding until the dying minutes of the auction.  There is a possibility that you may well receive more bids for the item if you were to let the auction run to the end, although this is by no means guaranteed.  However, if you are happy with the price that the item has fetched so far and you would prefer to just cut the auction short and sell to the high bidder then there is nothing to stop you from doing so - that is, so long as you do it before the auction gets to the point where it has less than twelve hours to go until the end!

[clute21]

Choose end from the options to the right of the item in your my ebay one of the options that should show is sell to highest bidder.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/cancelling-listing?id=4146&s...