Is there any way I can add a Buy It Now option once a bid has been made? The listing won't let me.

[countessalmirena]

No.

Once someone placed a bid on your item, your Buy It Now option vanishes and cannot be reinstated.

The price of your starting bid is your reserve to all intents and purposes, not a BIN price.

If you started your item too low, you may want to rethink that listing.

Read this: https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/listings/selling-auctions?id=4110

Also: https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/listings/selling-auctions/canceling-bid?id=4140

And: https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/canceling-listing?id=4146

I also hope you’ve thoroughly read all about being registered for Managed Payments.

[domino-710]

I hope you have put your starting bid price - at a price you are willing to accept as a final bid.

[sugar249]

no

[slayerking!]

End it and relist it

[sugar249]

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@slayerking! wrote:

End it and relist it

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I know you can do it, but is it ethical.  

[davewil1964]

No it's not, but that reflects on the advisor.

[slayerking!]

It's your item! If you forgot to add something to the listing take it down add it and put it back up. It belongs to you no one else can tell you what to do with it.

[sugar249]

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@slayerking! wrote:

It's your item! If you forgot to add something to the listing take it down add it and put it back up. It belongs to you no one else can tell you what to do with it.

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I guess we have different standards.  

Enjoy your day

[springyzone]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

No it's not, but that reflects on the advisor.

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I see it differently in that I don't think slayer's advice was unethical.

I'd classify myself as honest & ethical but I also realise that some sellers make mistakes when they list something. Quite a few of them seem to think the Buy it now is a reserve of some kind, for example.

Now, you & I and most of us on the board know it is not & a read of the help pages would sort out a lot of problems before they arise if people read them before listing.

But as we know, they often don't.

My feeling is that if someone lists something at a price significantly lower than what they want to accept, if they have made a mistake, then the best thing all round is to end the listing.

We could just as easily say that a bidder might be trying to take advantage, I've seen that too. Not saying it happened here necessarily though.

So I guess my stance is if a seller has made a significant mistake of any kind on a listing then best thing is to end it asap, even if bids have been made.

But I am not sure golfer is even asking that. I am not sure if he has a problem with the starting price. He just seems to want to add a buy it now option after a bid is made.

Again, it is one of those things where you'd hope a seller would read up about auctions before listing but we live in an imperfect world, I guess.