Tom, as far as I know, currently an eBay seller can cancel any auction at any time, for virtually any (or even no particular) reason. Doesn't matter if there are bids or not.
This is different than the policy was a year or two ago - eBay probably figured it was too much of a hasssle to try and police. They just want money - lots of it preferably! They still get the listing fee if an auction is cancelled. They now get almost ten percent of every transaction (if it goes to completion and PayPal is used for payment...).
Anyone know differently?
Regards,
Greg "caveat emptor" Parker Ann Arbor, MI USA
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:12:08 +0000
> From: "Thomas R. Adams, Jr." <kctommy@msn.com>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]eBay mondia: Here it is, no it isn't
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> This one ended before I could decide to bid or not.
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> http://ebay.com/
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> No bids, so I believe no restrictions on the seller pulling the auction.
> But that also means no reasons given on why the auction ended. I presume
> the seller either decided to keep it himself or cut a private deal off eBay.
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> The bike was a big frame, and looked to be in excellent shape. Very pretty
> example of the early wild Mondia paint styles. Dale might want to grab a
> copy of these pics for the Swiss pages. I thought the price was a tad
> high, but apparently someone disagreed with me.
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> Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ