Ending ebay auctions early. Agree or disagree.

[lharri3600]

well here we go,
i can understand if the auction was pulled with 12 hours and the bids were low. that is suspect. i have had sellers pull auctions on me too, but i believe that the item is theirs UNTIL it is paid for. was i wrong? no. did i talk to jeff because he was mad? no. i contacted him beacuse he wanted the card. in fact we are going to meet and go to a leafs sabre hockey game, right jeff? and the the sabers are going to destroy them!!

[Fred]

Larry, are you saying that you're going to lose a bet on the hockey game and the card is payment for that bet?

I've followed auctions only to see them end early. I've also tried to get sellers to end auctions early in an attempt to buy a card because that very same tactic was used by someone else to get a card that I wanted. It's gotten to the point where you do what you can to get what you want (within reason - I wouldn't kill somebody over a card, well in most cases I wouldn't )


I have to figure that the card belongs to the seller and that they can do whatever they want with it. If they chose to put it in the BST and on ebay and they sell it on the BST then they can cancel the ebay auction. If that makes a potential buyer/bidder unhappy then they can chose to not bid on that sellers auctions in the future.

The person that said that the card isn't mine until it's in my possession is correct. You can pay for a card but it isn't really yours until you have your hands on it.

I've heard people complain that if there's a bid on the card then the seller should run the course of the auction - that's the sellers choice. I remember negotiating a price for a card on ebay (that had no bids) and by the time we settled on a price there was a bid on the card. The card was pulled and the person that placed a bid on it (a board member, way back when) was ticked off about it. Sorry about that, sometimes the timing just sucks.

[lharri3600]

no fred i didn't lose a bet. but jeff and i are going to a sabre leaf game here in buffalo if he wants to.

[jb217676]

I don't take offense to being called "ridiculous". I've been called much worse.

[Fred]

Ah, the high road

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by jb217676

I don't take offense to being called "ridiculous". I've been called much worse.

For the sake of accuracy, you were not called ridiculous. A post saying that the owner of a card loses all rights to it once it receive a bid on eBay was called ridiculous. Which, I'm guessing now that you've recovered from the trauma of not being able to buy a card you wanted, you'll agree.

[jb217676]

Just got out of Emergency today, IV still in my arm.

[sox1903wschamp]

Originally Posted by lharri3600

in fact we are going to meet and go to a leafs sabre hockey game, right jeff? and the the sabers are going to destroy them!!

Hockey talk. I love it. And I am rooting for the Leafs to lose so the Bruins get a higher draft pick

But seriously, I agree that the seller can do what they want until the buyer takes possession. But to Barry's point, consistency of this behavior will likely not make the sellers clients real happy. This is a case in point and I am sure not every buyer and seller debate can finish with a Hockey game although very cool!