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but Ebay has set up the system so that the buyer has all of the advantages and the sellers have few options. Last night I had a pair of jeans listed. I had previously sold an identical pair a few days ago and the bids tripled in the last 15 minutes of the bidding. About 2 hours before the auction ended, I wanted to see what was all ending and if the bidding was heavy, etc. So anyway...I find out that ebay was having technical problems and all items that were ending at this particular time were inaccessible and they didn't know when it would come up again. So basically, in the last two hours of my auction, there weren't going to be any bids. I had one bidder who opened the bid. I have no idea how much her maximum bid was. These jeans had 15 watchers on them, so I had a good reason to believe they were going to increase. Anyway, Ebay's advice was to cancel the bid that was placed and end the auction. So that is what I did. I emailed the bidder and apologized and told her I was going to relist them, but basically said I was following the advice of Ebay. I personally don't think I should have given these jeans away as most bidding is done in the last hour or so, but I got a nasty reply from the bidder about she was a legit bidder, etc. While I do understand where she is coming from, I didn't feel it was fair that I had to accept an obviously low bid on these jeans without any competition. I relisted the jeans on a one-day auction so that if she wanted to bid on them again, she could and not have to wait a lengthy time. By the way...they are now quadruple what her bid was with several hours to go. What would you have done and what do you think the fair thing to do was? I'm curious.
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