@dbbooks wrote:
They should not be able to change the price once the item has been selec ted.. Thatt's what's DODGY and ebay should DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
If I understand your first post correctly, you hadn't 'selected' it at the time the revision was made. Perhaps you were looking at the listing and seeing the $15~ price, but therein lies the rub - you were looking. When you clicked "buy it now" the price had obviously already changed, so the details updated on the next screen, enabling you to confirm for sure at the currently listed price, and you were in a position to decline that price. I understand why that would be disappointing and/or frustrating, but it's not like it's an intentional thing.
In order to be able to facilitate what you are suggesting, eBay would need to provide a way to basically deactivate any listing that is currently being edited, which could be feasible, but maybe it's not (I don't know, I'm not a programmer).
As it stands, a seller can either end an item and relist, in the process losing all of their sales history - which is actually important (and, if they had done that, instead of clicking "buy it now" and seeing a new price, you would have clicked "buy it now" and seen "this item is no longer available" instead, then a minute or two later a note would have appeared saying "the seller has relisted this item or one like it - view relisted item" and then seen the new price, thus leaving you in exactly the same situation), or activate the out of stock feature, edit it so that it shows as 0 available, submit that to the site, go back in and edit again for all the other changes, then submit to the site again - a convoluted process is ever there was one, just to try and avoid frustrating someone who may be going through the process of buying something.
