posted on March 28, 2001 01:04:33 PM
If you'd put in an early bid on a desirable widget that an unknowing seller listed without the right keywords in the title or description. After the auction had gone several days with no other bids, the seller cancelled your bid, ended the auction, and relisted the item, this time with the correct title and description.
posted on March 28, 2001 01:18:20 PM
Just because someone makes a mistake, doesn't mean they have to follow through to the end of the auction. AFTER it has been sold, it is a different story.
Consider the reverse... the seller lists something mistakenly, worth much less than the description implies. He discovers the error. How would you feel if he DIDN'T cancel the auction?
posted on March 28, 2001 01:26:32 PM
I guess I should add that I'm the idiot seller in this case. Ebay's search had been messed up when I was researching these widgets, and just today I finally found some similar widgets in ended auctions that went for a whole lot more than I started these at.
I would normally just wait till the auction ended, assuming that the bids would come, but there have been only 10 hits in 4 days and I know the usual collectors of this widget aren't finding it.
I feel awful for the bidder, but I'm listing these for a friend and I can't let them go for $10 dollars.
posted on March 28, 2001 03:54:18 PMMonkeysuit, I think you did the right thing for yourself by cancelling and relisting. I have won several things where the seller described it incorrectly or had typos that made for BIG bargains.
The only thing I would do in a similar circumstance is send an e-mail to each bidder telling them that you made an error in the title and/or description and could not revise it since there was already a bid. As a buyer, I would have no problem with that, except for the fact that I wouldn't get as much of a bargain!
P.S. I have seen a number of auctions while browsing that a seller has listed or described incorrectly, and I send them a note so they can fix it (obviously, if I'm interested in it, I don't tell 'em!!!! ).
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