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 romantiques
 
posted on February 14, 2002 07:00:20 PM
Dumb question?? Probably. There is a low opening bid in on a reserve auction. Someone wrote who's in a hurry and wants to pay the reserve but not wait for the auction to end. Both of us would want to be within the rules. Is there a way? Thanks. (Obviously never had this happen before).

 
 dadofstickboy
 
posted on February 14, 2002 07:18:33 PM
I would say yes! Revise the auction, adding BIN. After all it stays till the reserve is met. So you should be able to add it if the reserve is not yet met. Try it what can it hurt?

 
 jsbrock
 
posted on February 15, 2002 03:58:18 PM
I don't think you can. I had an auction where the only bid was retracted and I couldn't modify it afterwards simply because bidding had begun even though there was no actual bid at the time.

 
 dadofstickboy
 
posted on February 15, 2002 04:59:02 PM
romantiques:
I'm interested in knowing! Did you try & did it work?


 
 romantiques
 
posted on February 15, 2002 05:07:10 PM
dadofstickboy ~ Hi again....No it doesn't work after a bid has been placed. There are other things that can be revised, but that's not one of them. I'm just going to let it go. The more thought I gave it, it's better that it didn't work. I'll let the bidding take its course to be fair to all. Thanks for your help.

 
 kiara
 
posted on February 15, 2002 05:17:30 PM
After a bid is in I didn't think you could revise anything on the auction. Isn't that option removed completely once a bid is in?

 
 romantiques
 
posted on February 15, 2002 05:24:20 PM
kiara, when I went to the very bottom of the auction page itself, the Frequent questions box had the "how do I make a change, etc.etc. question" I clicked on that and the page that comes up says that if a bid is already in on an item you can still revise the description or change its category.

 
 kahml
 
posted on February 15, 2002 05:24:21 PM
It's funny how it works.

If there is an outstanding bid, the option to revise the listing is removed.

However, if the bid is retracted, the option reappears. Try to use it and you're told that you can't.

I don't think eBay thought that one through completely...

 
 
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