I have some records on ebay (Finishing Sunday) including 5 Job lots (1 of 35 Motown & 4 Lots of 20 70's & Demos). This isn't a sales pitch , honest !

Now I had no bids yet , although there a a few watching them but someone has asked if I would give them a price as a Buy It Now for all 5 Lots.

My dilemma is

1/ am I allowed to do this ?

2/ is it it ethical ?

3/ If it is ok to do this how do i take them off ebay?

if this is in the wrong section Mods , please feel free to move

Cheers

Swifty

Swifty - I think your ethical dilema is about to be increased, as you may now find people looking for them and placing bids. I'm sat at a pc at the moment writing some education drivel, coming on here occasionally to keep my sanity:

Does this help:

Pring offers a distinction between morals; "concerned with what is right or wrong thing to do.", and ethics; "philosophical enquiry into the basis of morals or moral judgement" :sleep3: .

In the end it's up to you I think, and that's speaking as someone who very often waits until the last 5 seconds to bid. I think we can be a little guilty of taking ebay too serious sometimes, as a seller you want the most without misleading someone, as a buyer you want the bargain. I was talking to someone at work about ebay buying (not records in this case), he offered a seller a couple of buy it now offers which she turned down on principal. He ended winning the item (collect only) for min bid. Went round to collect and she was refusing to give it him for the min bid wanting to revert to the offer he made by email!

I know this isn't helping, I'm just bored.

Your records and your selling them, so what you do is upto you. If they are willing to pay what you want for them, then what's the problem? If people want to watch and not bid, that's upto them. I do it myself, sometimes out of interest to see what they go for, othertimes incase I'm skint and hope they'll be relisted and if they sell then that's my loss.

If you decide to remove them from sale, you need to go to your 'My Ebay, Selling'. On the right-hand side of the page against each item you will see a list of possible actions - one of which is 'End Item'. Select this and then follow the instructions.

I think I'm correct in saying though, that once an auction has less than 12 hours to go, you are unable to remove an item from sale.

Edited November 26, 201113 yr by Soul16

I think it might be 24 hours as the deadline to cancel an item. They're your records so do as you wish!

Thanks to all the above , much appreciated , all depends what I get offered , just didn't want to do anything wrong!

God I must be getting old & serious , never used to give a sh*t what anyone thought

Cheers

Swifty

there,s no problem, as long as you have NO bidders on the items, but if you did have bidders, then to me it would then be unethical to remove them, its a bit like when a buyer retracts a bid, it can be done but its deemed "unethical although sometimes its done with genuine reasons

as said, if no bidders its fine. If someone has bid then it can be seen as wrong to sell them to someone else. But end o day they're your records to sell to who you want, also if your going to get more money for them, then fair dos, times are hard.

Dilema sorted , made me an offer but I wanted a bit more , so he has decided to Bid on them and no doubt will

get the bloody things cheaper than he offered me in the first place DOH!

Hey Ho !

Swifty

Dilema sorted , made me an offer but I wanted a bit more , so he has decided to Bid on them and no doubt will

get the bloody things cheaper than he offered me in the first place DOH!

Hey Ho !

Swifty

fingers crossed you get more mate.

private message me a link to your ebay for sale section, i'll have a gander