can the seller just end his auction?

[guydomenici]

I have been bidding on an item in an auction against others, and the seller has up and ended the auction! Can they do this even if it was due to end in 9 hours time?

[putney32]

A seller can end an auction up to 12hrs before end ofauction.   if it was only 9 hrs then ebay must have ended it.

you would have received an email telling you that the auction ended, that should have given a ''reason''

[guydomenici]

No email has been sent by Ebay and the seller won't reply to emails, yet he still has other auctions which still have 6hours left on them. It just removes any faith in the ebay process!!

[jensmanchester-australia]

The seller may have ended the auction early and sold it to the highest bidder at the time - a seller can do this if there is less than 12 hours to go.

[*crikey*mate*]

it's not eBay's "system", it is the law.

a bid is an offer, an offer can be rejected at any time prior to acceptance (the end of the auction)