Post #745924 by lunavideogames on Tue, Jun 30, 2015 2:32 PM

This above story is an obvious reason not to make an offer to cancel their ebay auction.

Sadly this does happen all the time. It happened to me on a Trader Mort mug. I had been looking for one for years (have one now). One came up on ebay and I made sure to get my bid in. A day later it was taken off ebay, obviously from an outside ebay offer. I was pretty mad and emailed the seller, "hopefully you got $500+ for this cause that is what I was ready to pay." I am sure he did not get that much, and I might not have really paid that much, but I did want the seller to realize that he could have made more money on this item than he thought.

I guess it is on the seller. If the seller is getting offers like $200, no $500, no $1000 and he doesn't realize that he should obviously leave it to see how much he can ACTUALLY get for the item, he is the idiot. I would never cancel my auction, I know that I can make more than what I have been offered.

Unfortunately offering to purchase outside of ebay is very common and it will have to reduce all of us to this level, or we will lose out of items that we want.