seller cancels sale due to not reaching a high enough price, failed to set reserve

[jon8634]

g'day, had s seller cancel a sale due to listing not reaching price wanted,didnt have a reserve, seller cancelled 'due to postage address problems'  has postage listed in ad...immediately re-listed ad, no reserve set again..

[padi*0409]

Reserves on eBay Australia can only be used for motors and real estate, if a seller puts a BIN on an auction that disappears after a bid is made on the item.

[sandypebbles]

Are they a new seller?

IF so, Perhaps you can  message the seller and expain how it works, now you know there are NO reserves, maybe the seller 'thought' there were too

Nothing we can do about it, not even eBay will make them sell to you at the price you bid

[jon8634]

oh, ok..that needs to change, really need a reserve function on setting a price, but you can set a starting price to avoid just what happened, dont have a price set,sell the damn thing for what it reaches, or better yet contact the buyer and let them know mistakes were made, , dont put it on the buyer as being dodgey with a 'problem with address'

[sandypebbles]

Message the seller and pull them up on it, or simply ask what the 'address' problem is

If they are going to use that as an excuse, then they need to be blocking addresses they won't ship to in their settings

I very much doubt eBay are going to be putting a reserve function on though 

[jon8634]

thank you all that responded, seller hasnt / probably wont respond to my queries, so i'll see what happens from ebay side of things

have screenshot of sale and the sale number ,

and thanks again

[lyndal1838]

Don't get your hopes up.....ebay will not do anything at all about a seller who does not follow through with a sale.

They might say they will do something, but they never do.

And they are most unlikely to instate reserves on the Australian site even though many other sites have them.  The seller needs to start the listing at the price he is happy to accept if there is only one bid.....any more is a bonus.

[jon8634]

well thought it was done but, seller messaged me after i messaged about dodgey address issue, hell i'll just cut and paste it

Well someone already bought the item that’s why I took off the ad stop messaging or I’ll report you

hmm, except it was me that bought it, and seller immediately relisted it , also exact same ad used just re-listed

wonder if its worth getting reported, at least the U.S ebay has a phone number to call

[davewil1964]

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@jon8634 wrote:

well thought it was done but, seller messaged me after i messaged about dodgey address issue, hell i'll just cut and paste it

Well someone already bought the item that’s why I took off the ad stop messaging or I’ll report you

hmm, except it was me that bought it, and seller immediately relisted it , also exact same ad used just re-listed

wonder if its worth getting reported, at least the U.S ebay has a phone number to call

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As you've already been told, no.

US eBay has no jurisdiction in Australia anyway.

The seller would have used the address reason to avoid a strike.

Just buy whatever it is from somebody else.

[krisdempsey]

same thing happened to me twice in last month or so, won the auction but immediately it was cancelled and some lame excuse coz it wasnt near what they were after. Ebay did nothing and they both relisted as buy it now and nearly triple the price.