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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2070392, member: 31533&quot;]I cancelled a transaction once as soon as it was &#039;won&#039;, but it was because I had specified which countries I would ship to. The guy who won it had &#039;registered&#039; on EBay in Great Britain, one of the countries I was shipping to, so he saw my item and was not prevented from bidding, but when he won my item, he had it for me to ship to Thailand or Burma or someplace. I wouldn&#039;t ship there, so I cancelled his sale, gave a second offer to someone else, and ebay refunded me the sellers fees on the first transaction and then took sellers fees on the second. So it was ok by them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s all well and good for all buyers to say a seller should never cancel a sale no matter what, but you don&#039;t know the circumstances. Sellers are really not in the habit of giving away their product. So, say there was an uncirculated 1932 D Washington Quarter up for sale and the seller started it at 1 cent to get it going (really common practice on ebay and ebay likes those, because usually the item then gets what it is worth, or more... at the very least it usually encourages a lot of bidders who might not bid normally on it, especially if it was started higher or had a reserve on it). One person bids on it, and then waits for the auction to end. But say, during that time, the other bidders or possible bidders are stuck in a situation where they normally go and snipe bid and for the time hours before the end of the auction, that is unavailable because of a grid failure (guess what, it happens) or server issue with their sniping service and no bids can come through for that and other some other auctions. Do you really expect a seller to let it go for someone&#039;s bid of say, 1 cent (because one bidder started and did not wait to snipe) and free shipping? I really don&#039;t think anyone of you would let that happen if you were the seller. So you have to consider the circumstances.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there are too many times that mistakes are made or products do disappear or get hurt between the sale and packaging. Another one I sold I had to not go through with as sold because I had set it up on a shelf while getting ready to package it. One of my cats decided to jump up there and the cat split the item enough. I contacted the person I sold it to and informed them of that, that it was not going to be. Unfortunate, because it was an older unusual photograph (large, curved one) and it would not have been repairable to a regular collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;ve had one transaction cancelled on me. Where a book valued at over 20.00 was being &#039;offered&#039; at less than 4.00 with free shipping. I was not really upset because it was a BIN and I was really suspect of the price, but the seller then did turn around and relist at a price around 25.00 each, and so those books which were said were unavailable magically became available for sale within hours and for a better price.&nbsp; But I can understand why he wouldn&#039;t want to honor the sales to the ones who purchased them at the lower price. Basically he would have almost been giving away his stock for free or close to it. And Ebay puts him in a bind because he can&#039;t just say to them it was because he didn&#039;t want to lose money or product. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have some items up on ebay right now that are listed ridiculously low or somewhat low, but those I am testing to see if they do get me better than I would expect if I put a more &#039;accurate&#039; starting price. These I am actually willing to ship regardless, because it might cost me not too much loss on it and I think the possible rewards are high enough on at least a couple of them to mitigate it. I will see. It may determine if I am less risk-adverse on eBay than I normally am.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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