YAE(bay)T: What if you set your auction low with no reserve...

[Blazin Trav]

Basically here's the rundown:
1)Seller sets auction low
2) buyer wins it
3) Seller obligated to ship? Under what circumstances can the seller relist even if someone bid and won the auction?

Just wondering... because if the seller gets way less than they should for an auction, are they stuck???

 

[IBuyUFO]

Yes, if the buyer wins the auction at whatever reserve or set price, then the seller is obligated to sell the item. It's a contract that you enter when you bid and win.

 

[altonb1]

They don't have to ship--they'll probably just take the Negative feedback.

 

[Trikat]

Not on eBay. On eBay the seller can say too bad I don't want to sell it to you and just maybe take a negative feedback. However he can just leave a negative feedback against the buyer even though it is a unwarranted. eBay wouldn't care in this situation.

 

[Blazin Trav]

Originally posted by: altonb1
They don't have to ship--they'll probably just take the Negative feedback.

So basically if the seller doesn't want bad feedback they ship, if they don't give a sh!t about the consequences, they relist, correct?

So there is no rule on eBay requiring the seller to ship in this case, right?

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav

Originally posted by: altonb1
They don't have to ship--they'll probably just take the Negative feedback.

So basically if the seller doesn't want bad feedback they ship, if they don't give a sh!t about the consequences, they relist, correct?

pretty much

 

[Blazin Trav]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav

Originally posted by: altonb1
They don't have to ship--they'll probably just take the Negative feedback.

So basically if the seller doesn't want bad feedback they ship, if they don't give a sh!t about the consequences, they relist, correct?

pretty much

But anywhere else, this can't happen... sounds like it at least...

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav

Originally posted by: altonb1
They don't have to ship--they'll probably just take the Negative feedback.

So basically if the seller doesn't want bad feedback they ship, if they don't give a sh!t about the consequences, they relist, correct?

So there is no rule on eBay requiring the seller to ship in this case, right?

Yes there are rules. Look up seller non performance on eBay, they can get their account revoked (though I really haven't heard of it ever happening), same as a NPB.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Ebay does have rules that require the seller to honor the final auction price... however, it doesn't mean the seller will follow them. in cases like this, consequences are less costly than compliance, and so anyone without principals would easily choose to simply back out of the sale.

 

[Biggerhammer]

It's a legal contract. They may well try to weasel out of it, but when the auction is over, the auction winner is obligated to pay for the item and the seller is obligated to send it. If the seller was not willing to sell the item for a nickel, he should have set a reserve.