Ebay etiquette question...

[chiwawa626]

Ebay etiquette question...

Suppose you are selling an item with no bids on it yet, and someone emails you outside of ebay offering you a reasonable amount for the item. Would you cancel the auction and sell the item outside of ebay, or would you take your chances and go through with the auction? Or in other words would you violate ebay policy for your own benifit?

Also is it wrong to pose nekkkid with your item for auction pictures?

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626

Also is it wrong to pose nekkkid with your item for auction pictures?

Aside from sending customers running to gouge their eyes out, I guess that's up to you.

 

[Injury]

If you are selling expensive electronics and some idiot offers more than it should probably sell for, it's a scam. Because of this, I would tell them that they can send me the money via western union and when I have it, then and only then, will I cancel the auction.

 

[spanky]

i'd do it, as long as the offer i get is reasonable. i doubt ebay cares, becuz they still make money from ur listing fee. so in the end... ebay makes money... u use ebay as an advertising tool... it's a win/win situation.

 

[NeoPTLD]

eBay won't make any money if you cancel the listing. It's against eBay policies and people who offers you a price and asking you to cancel it is either a competitor trying to push you out of his way or he's trying to get the item for what you'll end up getting through letting it finish.

 

[kranky]

What you can do to maintain the ebay protections (ability to leave feedback, etc.) is to tell the guy who contacted you that you will relist the item with a BIN price (the price that you both agreed to), and coordinate with him a time that you can both be online.

Then you relist it with a BIN price, and he can immediately hit the BIN.

 

[NeoPTLD]

You're screwed if he changed his mind after you cancelled the auction and relisted the item.

 

[DingDingDao]

Just tell him to make a bid on it. If you have no bids on it yet, it's possible that his first bid would win.

EDIT: If you're a girl and you're hot, then naked pics are perfectly acceptable--nay, encouraged.
If you're neither a girl not hot, then no.

 

[Kelemvor]

I'll give you $13,000 for the item right now. But I'll have to give you $20k and then you can send me the refund when you get it. You can even keep an extra 1k for yourself...

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'll give you $13,000 for the item right now. But I'll have to give you $20k and then you can send me the refund when you get it. You can even keep an extra 1k for yourself...

lol

 

[aircooled]

I always let the auction end normally. If the guy wants the item, tell him to bid on it.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I've done both, ended an auction early & had one stopped.

Both ended up as local sales though, and generally, people emailing me to end my auction early & send my notebook to Nigeria to someone's husband who owns a store and already has a buyer royally piss me off:|

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Ebay etiquette question...

Suppose you are selling an item with no bids on it yet, and someone emails you outside of ebay offering you a reasonable amount for the item. Would you cancel the auction and sell the item outside of ebay, or would you take your chances and go through with the auction? Or in other words would you violate ebay policy for your own benifit?

Also is it wrong to pose nekkkid with your item for auction pictures?

No bids? Sure I'd cancel.

It's fine to pose nekkid if you're a hot chick. Some users really capitalize on that one, hah. Otherwise, DON'T do it.