Relisting newly ended item asap - before I lose watchers

[iloverhubarb]

I've just ended an item which had a couple of bids on it, saying 'item no longer available'. A bike - because I started it at £4.99, and I realise at this rate it will sell for maybe £7 tomorrow. It's worth say £25; I'd rather not sell at the low price. Never ended item before.

So I'd like to relist at fixed price of £25, ideally alerting the 10 watchers (including bidders), that it is available again.

It is on my selling activity list as 'unsold'. It gives me the option of 'relist at fixed price'. When I do this I get a peculiar spreadsheet thing, no instructions at all. I just want to relist with buy it now price. Any ideas? Of course I can copy and paste and start again, but then will lose my watchers gathered over a week. Maybe I burned my boats by saying item no longer available.

Any tips gratefully rec/d.

Go to the item and open it up as if you were just viewing it, then you should see the option to relist at the top left of the page. You can edit the selling type from auction to BIN in there.

You will have pissed off people who were bidding on it though, and made yourself look a bit of a tit to be honest.

You have no way of knowing what the bidding would have ended at, and should really have left it to run if you had ten watchers.

I think you were out of order to list it at a starting price that you were not prepared to accept and then pull the sale. If I were one of the bidders I would put on a complaint to eBay about you. You can't just stop sales willy nilly because it hasn't reached a price you are happy with if you have not put s reserve on it!

You've probably shot yourself in the foot because the way eBay tends to work these days is that if you have plenty of watchers, the price will rise rapidly in the last few minutes.

As the above poster said, what you did was 'wrong'. If you want a certain price, reserve or start there.

Oh, and the 'complicated spreadsheet' was just the multi-relist page. Very simple to work with , you just have to prod it a bit. Not really necessary if you're only relisting one item though.

Thanks anyway!

Once you relist you lose all watchers

but watchers will get an email stating item they were watching has been relisted won't they?

I think you missed a trick though, many buyers will only bid in the last few seconds, so I bet you would have achieved a decent price. Items generally will find their correct price as it were if listed correctly with good photos and ending at the right time.

Ive never had an email telling me an Item I have been watching has been relisted. Maybe it does happen but never happened to me.

really? I get them all the time - my settings must be different to yours then?

i get an email too!

Must be our preferences/settings then Dizzy I guess?

I also get e-mails to say items I have been watching have been relisted....

I don't get emails but it does say in my watch list that something has been relisted. OP, I agree you will have peed a few people off. And won't the people who bid first time know it's relisted after you cancelled it saying 'no longer available'?

It only shows as relisted if it went to the end of the listing and did not sell, not if you cancel the listing then relist.

in the description of the new ad, you can say "relisted due to non-paying bidder"

or you might still be able to make a Second Chance Offer to the second-highest bidder at whatever he bid.

That wouldn't be true though would it Piglet since those watching would know when it should have ended. The OP relisted as she feared that it wouldn't reach the price she wanted by the end of the auction. She would not have known unless she waited, it may have well exceeded £25 by the end of the auction. I know I'd be annoyed if I bidded only to see it disappear and relisted at a BIN price.

oh yes, I was thinking about someone else.