Can someone with an ebay account do me a favor?

[SAWYER]

It wont cost anything. I have an auction for a phone I listed for parts that now wont even power on. It was powering on when I made the auction and I have bids and no way to cancel it. I need someone to bid some ridiculous price that wont be topped and then after the auction is over I send a request to cancel the auction. I called ebay and they told me I can do this, it is my only option now.

So as soon as the auction is over I send a request to mutually cancel it and that is all there is to it.

 

[amdhunter]

$2

 

[smackababy]

Ebay gave you the go ahead to commit auction fraud? Simply wait for the auction to finish and message the highest bidder explaining the situation. Tell them the phone no longer works and offer a cancellation.

Can you not update the auction and notify the bidders? There are ways to cancel the bids, especially in a case where this happened.

 

[Modular]

Can't you do this yourself? Make another account and outbid everyone. Or is that against the eBay TOS?

 

[SAWYER]

I cant cancel the bids because the auction has less than 12 hours.

 

[Printer Bandit]

$2.01.

 

[DesiPower]

where is the link to the auction?

 

[smackababy]

I cant cancel the bids because the auction has less than 12 hours.

That is BS. I just recently was outbid on an item and the bid was canceled with less than 6 hours left, putting me as the highest bidder. I don't know the exact time, but there was 6 hours left when I bid.

 

[SAWYER]

I meant I cant cancel or revise the auction, yeah I should be able to cancel bids up until the end

 

[fjmeat]

Can you edit the ebay page title to say *DO NOT BID - PHONE DOES NOT WORK AS OF 5/15/14.*

Current bidders will see this too and immediately know somethings up.

 

[SAWYER]

No I cant make any revisions at this point

 

[smackababy]

I meant I cant cancel or revise the auction, yeah I should be able to cancel bids up until the end

Then message the bidders and ask if they would like their bid canceled in light of the new information.

I take it you put the phone powers on in the auction.

 

[deadlyapp]

Why don't you just wait for it to finish and then inform the buyer and let them decide on what to do?

Either way you'll probably get a neg feedback.

 

[SunnyD]

I've had auctions pulled with less than an hour left after bids were posted.

Of course knowing you, it probably works just fine. You just likely found a local buyer that you're going to price gouge and the low-ass bids on ebay are making you sad.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I'll do it if you want. Send me a PM.

 

[Rakehellion]

I called ebay and they told me I can do this.

O rly?

 

[Rakehellion]

You can always refund the buyer and not deliver.

 

[SAWYER]

Thanks krazy4real, now I can relist it with an accurate description

 

[momeNt]

If I win i'm still giving you bad feedback.