Dilemma with selling on Ebay

Mosaic | 08:23 Mon 17th Sep 2012 | How it Works

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Any experts out there - I'd appreciate a tip about the following.
Last month I sold an item on ebay, but the seller never paid up, so I went through all the due processes then put it up for sale again.
The auction is nearly through with a few bids placed, but when I've weighed it for postage it's much heavier than I thought. I'll basically be paying someone to take it off my hands.
So if I withdraw the sale at this point, will the ebay gods smite me unto the seventh generation, or is it OK to do that?

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NOX

No that's fine to do just pull it from sale with ' item no longer available' or something like that in the list. There will be no repercussions whatsoever, then relist it with the right postage.

jomifl

Did you not say that the postage was to be paid by the purchaser? You can say that the item is no longer available as it is not as described,lost, damaged,stolen or whatever.

Mosaic

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Thanks Nox!

Mosaic

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Jo - I'd put in the postage cost on the basis of a simialr item I'd sold earlier in the year, but it's actually much heavier when I weighed it. Silly me. Must keep kitchen scales in study from now on.

jomifl

Mosaic, it might be an idea to specify that the buyer has a good feedback rating in future.

Mosaic

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Thanks Jo - the odd thing about this buyer that didn't pay was that 'she' had only 14 purchases but 100% positive feedback - no stars - so might have been a newbie. Absolutely no response from messages / invoices, so perhaps just fell under a bus one night.

dotty.

you can set your allowed buyers criteria to avoid failed sales. When you withdraw your item those who have placed a bid will get an alert from ebay, i had one similar after bidding on an item, it advised me not to dela outside of ebay if the buyer contacted me etc, be aware of that, also be aware that when you relist it the bidders/watchers from the first listing will probably get a heads up email from ebay telling them it has been relisted, and so you should totally delete it and re-list it on a fresh ID item number.

Mosaic

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Thanks Dotty - that is in exact line with what I intended to do, namely divide up the heavy lot into components and list individually.

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