Hmm.
So this happened. I found a Buy It Now auction for a thing I'd been after at a very reasonable (but not stupidly cheap) price, so I bought it.
A few minutes later I get a message from the seller saying "oh dear, I didn't mean to make it a Buy It Now sale, but start an auction".
Oh dear indeed. Seller man's feedback is all as a buyer to date, so it might well be a genuine mistake.
From a quick look at eBay's help pages, it looks like his only options are to go ahead with the sale and chalk it up to experience or to try to cancel the sale and eat the negative feedback. The baser part of my nature says "it sucks to be you, send me my thing", but I wonder if there's any other way to resolve this where I get my thing and matey boy doesn't feel like he got a raw deal? (He didn't anyway, IMO).
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Having checked recent completed listings, what I paid is about in line with what other listings ended at. It's not like I got his house for 99p.
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I think he's somehow managed to set up the auction wrong (first time seller by the looks of it) and might now be looking for a way out of selling at what he considers a low price. I'm less sympathetic having looked at completed listings than I was before, but this thread is just me wondering how to proceed in a way that ends with me getting my item and Seller McSellerson not feeling like he screwed himself.
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I don't really know what you want me to do about the situation. What do you suggest?
All the recent auctions have ended at around the BIN price I paid. I'd quite like to have what I paid for at the price I paid, but open to suggestions.
We'll see what happens.
FWIW I reckon what he's charged for postage is going to leave him out of pocket there too, but let's not go there.
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1. Seller McSellerson thinks he's lost out on the price he should have got by listing his thing the way he did.
2. I sympathise. If it were me I'd want the most money for my thing too.
3. I'm not sure he's come out as badly as he thinks.
4. I would have been willing to pay more for the thing than I did, but I certainly don't feel like I robbed anyone at the price I paid.
5. None of this is my fault and I want my thing.
For reference, the highest sold listing on eBay for the thing is £25 more than his and £50 less than I can buy a new one, the lowest are maybe £50 less than his.
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I also found you can do auction + best offer. To me, this means start bid as normal and best offers *above* that if someone wants to end the bidding early. I got loads of offers below the start bid and some people getting quite narked over the whole thing - it was clearly bid or best offer, not buy it now or best offer.
Meh. Live and learn.
If the shoe was on the other foot you wouldn't bend over and take it from a buyer, and say "oh well, I was just unlucky".
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By the same token, with completed auctions being what they are, why waste everyone's time re-listing when it's sold for a fair price?
I mean sure, he would have liked more, but it's not as if selling at the upper end of the range of completed listing prices is "losing".
To be clear, I haven't actually done anything yet to "force" the sale except hit "buy it now" on a perfectly legitimate eBay listing. I've asked Mr Man what he wants to do about it and haven't had a response yet.
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