Page 1 of Ebay - question about sellers that end their listings early

A mate of mine was bidding on a pair of trainers and was winning them for 99p - the seller ended the item with 50 minutes to go. Seller is now selling the same trainers but is getting £50 for them. He was emailed asking why he ended the listing and was told that it wasn`t worth his while selling them for 99p!! I thought you couldn`t end a listing with less than 12 hours to go if it had a bid on it? Any thoughts...?

Typical ebay mate they don`t care they rather get thier percentage on the £50 then the 99p. People are always breaking ebay`s rules and policies and ebay sit back and let them do it. Look at the amount of illegal stuff on ebay.

Makes u feel better I won 3 tickets to a show for £20 and the woman refused to sell them to me. all ebay/paypal do is refund your money they can`t force them to sell it. Ebay close thier account but they soon open another one.

on the subject of ebay refunds, I bought a mobile phone off ebay the other week for £19.95 inc p&p but the seller hasn`t posted it or gotten back in touch with me in ages. I`ve put in a dispute on paypal but still haven`t heard anything.
I was going to escalate it to a claim but they mentioned something about a $25 admin fee.

has anyone claimed through paypal before and had to pay a fee?

full text from paypal site:

"We are sorry that you have been unable to resolve this dispute. By escalating your dispute to a claim, you are asking PayPal to review the case and decide the outcome.

PayPal will review your communication with the seller and may contact you for additional information. We will make every effort to resolve this claim within thirty days.

If this claim is decided in your favour, you will be eligible to receive whatever funds we can recover from the seller minus a $25.00 USD processing cost. We will make our best effort to investigate this matter fairly and, if the claim is decided in your favour, recover whatever funds we can."

I didn`t think you could end a listing with less than 12 hours to go if there is a bid on it.....how did the seller manage to do it??


why take life so seriously..its not like you are going to make it out alive

You cant end it with less than 12 hours to go. I was selling a car and also had sale signs in the window of the car. I car called me, lokked at the car and said he wanted it. I had to get him to press the buy now button. Even though he gave me less than that prace. I have no idea how he ended it early. :/

The Jackal