June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
Content preview from eBay Hacks, 2nd Edition
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Make Changes to Running Auctions
Keep your auctions looking and performing their best with post-listing revisions.
We all misspell words from time to time, but where auction titles and descriptions are concerned, innocent typos can adversely affect sales. eBay allows you to modify your auctions once they’ve been started, but certain revisions may not be allowed, depending on when you submit them and whether the item has received any bids.
For example, eBay understandably doesn’t let you change the description once someone has bid on your auction, even if you cancel the member’s bid [Hack #68] . But eBay does allow you to submit additions to the end of your listing description, accompanied by a date and timestamp, making it clear to your bidders exactly what you added and when. And since eBay doesn’t allow bidders to retract their bids [Hack #32] within the last 12 hours of an auction, normal revisions otherwise available to sellers are prohibited during that time. Thus the policies governing revisions to running auctions can be rather confusing.
Table 4-4 shows possible revisions to a running auction; a checkmark indicates when each revision is allowed.
Table 4-9. When the components and features of alisting can be changed
Revision | Before first bid | After first bid | Last 12 hours | Completed items |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Best Offer (fixed-price listings only) | ✓ | |||
Bold | ✓ | ✓ (nonrefundable if removed) | ✓ (nonrefundable if removed) | |
Buy It Now | ✓ | Vehicles with a reserve price only | Only using secondchance offer | |
Calculated ... |
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