A seller ended a listing and I wasn't notified?

Hi folks,

I was bidding on an item (a virginia halfpenny) and was winning with less than 12 hours to go. I wake up today to find that the listing has been removed. I'm pretty annoyed, because according to ebay, if you need to end a listing with less than 12 hours to go, the item is sold to the person with the highest bid (me). Is there anything I can do? I was after this coin for a while, and now that I was so close, I lost it at the last second because of this!

Simon

 

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Edit: never mind, just got a notification from ebay...disappointed...really wanted that coin, and I didn't see anything wrong with the listing.

 

He can cancel your bid anytime he wants. I think the only problem he has for ending the item early is he pays ebay a final value fee. But I am no expert on that place.

 

I'm guessing the seller probably just had a case of "low-bid jitters"......Ie; They were afraid of it selling for a lower price than they hoped. It looks like eBay will be cracking down on these types of practices in the coming months, thank goodness. Sorry you lost the coin :-(

 

Yeah, they had a "buy it now" for $1,500, and I was winning with a bid of $35 with 10 hours to go before they ended it. I'm super annoyed, as this is the second time I have bid on a Virginia halfpenny only to lose it at the last second. Totally bogus move of the seller to end the listing!

 

Bingo!
I've seen more newb sellers pull that stunt, but the pros do it too. However, I think after you've been selling long enough you start to realize that the bids always come at the last second.
There are legitimate reasons for having to close a listing, but sellers that do it frequently need to be scrutinized. It's an unfair tease that can really ruin a persons day.......and ruin their opinion of an auction site. Hope eBay starts treating it a little more seriously soon.

 

This policy has been in place since LAST October, I'm fairly certain. If you end a listing early, you're charged whatever the Final Value Fee would have been of the bid that was winning at the time. I had this happen with a toy robot that I had listed incorrectly. I ended up owing eBay 11-cents or something, but at least I didn't end up having to sell the wrong item.

I can see how, if someone had a BIN of $1500, they'd gladly pay eBay $3.50 to not have to sell it for a "loss" of $1465.

 

Wow! Good catch North Korea, I'm sorry for that, yes it was put in place 2012! Yikes!

Simon, I should say you'll see that coin for sale again. Probably soon, but it will have an unrealistically high starting bid or it might not even have the auction option.
I'd put money on that! It seems to be the trend.

 

Keep your eye open for it to be re listed as a buy it now. Someone might have made an offer to him that he was interested in.

 

It's possible the seller sold the coin off of Ebay.

 

that's why you put a reserve price on it. i hate when sellers end the auctions early. what a turn off to that seller. I would e-mail him and let him know you would never buy from him again. If your bid was an insult of $35 on a $1,500 coin to him then of course he could end it early.

 

Thanks guys. I'm going to keep tabs on ebay to see if it resurfaces, and if it does, send the seller a note expressing my frustration in the matter.

 

If the BIN price survived your bid there must have been a reserve. If you bid wasn't qualified with "high bidder but reserve not met" the BIN should have gone away. And he has no way of seeing what your bid tops out at unless someone pushes you up. Your bid would show if you met a reserve, but then only as much as necessary to do so without a pusher. This whole thing doesn't seem right. What was the item number?

 

Here is the tracking number. Of course, since ebay shut down the listing, there's no results from searching it.

330982603136

 

Whoa. If the listing has been removed (so that you can't even see it any more), that's a very different thing from having it ended early (in which case you'd still be able to see it as a completed auction).

If it appeared to be a Virginia halfpenny, nice enough to justify a $1500 BIN, I wonder whether somebody flagged it as counterfeit. That's when you see an auction disappear, as opposed to simply ending.

 

Yeah, when I created the thread, I was able to see my "recently viewed items" on the ebay app and it said "listing ended". Then, a minute later I realized ebay notified me that they atually took down the auction.

 

As said, that changes everything.

 

My apologies. I thought that the second post cleared it up. I'll be more specific in the future.

 

But you went on in post 5

then post 12

Now I think we are all on the same page. ebay nuked so the guy is harmless for its disappearance, and the jury is still out on why it got nuked, did it look ok to you? what else is this guy selling, might worth scrutinizing him. Can you link us up with one of his other items?

 

If anyone happens to be an expert at virginia halfpennies, here is the photo that was used in the auction.