Item no longer available, but relisted?

[MrsMangoBiscuit]

I was the winning bidder on a toy for DD on ebay. My bid was cancelled, and the listing ended as apparently the item is no longer available. However I've gone to look at the seller's listed items and they have relisted it, exactly the same photo and as far as I can tell, exactly the same details. Any idea why someone would do that? If it's important, I have 100% feedback.

Sorry, no idea. If you had said that you'd won the item and then the seller relisted I would have thought they only had one picture of the item.

Can you contact the seller and ask them?

Because they didn't get the money they wanted for it?

I've been studying both listings again, and I've realised the first one has lots of spelling mistakes. Maybe that's why? Surely you could just edit the listing for that if it bothered you? I've put a bid on the new listing but I think I'll do as you suggest and message them.

I would think it was because they didn't get as much as they were hoping for with the item.
I would message the seller and say as you were the winning bidder, and were told the item was no longer available, ask why it is for sale again.
Or just bid on it again!

if you won it then surely they can't cancell it? I thought they could cancell it before hand but not once there was only a certain amount of time left to run and definitely not if someone has placed a winning bid.

It hadn't finished, sorry "winning bidder" probably wasn't the right phrase. Highest bidder. Anyways, they've messaged back, it was the typos. They couldn't just change it as I'd already bid, and they're happy for me to bid again. Now I just need to win!

Thanks all.

As long as there's more than 12 hours to go they can do what they like with it. As you've found out now!

I had to do this recently - put something on as a relist then discovered that I couldn't find it but will be putting it back on again if I do, did message all the people who had bid explaining that this was the case though and if they wanted me to would message them to tell them was relisting.

I also had to do this recently - I had listed 2 different "vintage" apple computer manuals, but didn't notice until someone asked a question about one with less than 12 hours to go that I had uploaded the same photo for both! If I remember, you don't get many options to choose for the reason when you cancel a listing.

I guess they cancelled the first listing as there were errors - relisting with corrected spellings could attract more bidders. Did the end time change too - maybe they wanted it to end in the evening and the first listing didn't end at the correct time of day?

this sounds pretty innocent if typos will not come up in searches so biders will miss item

It sounds like they were not going to get enough money for it so ended the listing and re listed.