Posting an item on Ebid and Ebay?

[LovesVintage43]

Yes, that's right. The problem is mostly with Private sellers who are selling one offs .

[cerealmunkee]

It really doesn't matter if you were to list one item on ebay and find it had bids, and find that it sold on ebid as you would simply cancel the ebay bid, this happens all of the time ....the most common reason is the seller being contacted by chancers asking if they have a buy it now price and they're taken in by a quick sale.....normally at less than the price that the auction would have realised had it been left running, this really does happen constantly.

[CopperLocker]

I think before this conversation goes any further this should be posted

29) What items are banned on eBid (eBid Auction Posting Rules)

Below is not an exhaustive list but you should be aware that you are ultimately responsible for making sure that the buying or selling of an item is legal in the eyes of the law. The following items cannot be posted on eBid. It is at the discretion of eBid if a user is deemed to have broken these posting rules. If so their account will be held and ALL auctions deleted. Please ensure you read through this list, it will save you and us time in the future and answer a lot of users complaints similar to "Why have eBid deleted my auctions for no reason". Auctions are NEVER removed without reason.

Selling Off Site/The posting of Contact Details.

• Attempts to sell off-site will mean the removal of all auctions of the seller in question. If a Q&A is received offering to buy the only response is to ask them to make a bid.
• All Q&A responses must be made within a reasonable length of time from the time of the original question. Unanswered questions will deem the seller and thus the auction to be inactive.
• We do not allow the posting of contact details in the auction. By this we mean telephone numbers, email addresses or links/details pertaining to a third party ecommerce site.
• References to email or website addresses in usernames is not allowed. This includes but is not limited to '.com' '.co.uk' '.net' or 'dot'.

It looks as eBid has a policy like eBay about selling or listing of the same item (a single item) on a on a different site. Off site means another site or through personal contact.

[cerealmunkee]

I think that what the rules are talking about is telling you that Ebid want their cut for advertising your item, and if a buyer really wanted your auction item then their is nothing wrong with pulling it and relisting it as a buy it now.
Additionally there are more than one reason why a listing may no longer be available other than it being sold elsewhere, such as a fault may have been found or it was found not to be of good enough quality to sell as well as many more other reasons.

The section that you highlight is in place to combat final value fee avoidance in the event that a prospective buyer makes contact with you to sell your Ebid listing off Ebid and you will therefore save a whopping 3% in final value fees. but no one is forbidding you from selling elsewhere.while running a like for like listing on Ebid.

[CopperLocker]

I think that what the rules are talking about is telling you that Ebid want their cut for advertising your item, and if a buyer really wanted your auction item then their is nothing wrong with pulling it and relisting it as a buy it now.
Additionally there are more than one reason why a listing may no longer be available other than it being sold elsewhere, such as a fault may have been found or it was found not to be of good enough quality to sell as well as many more other reasons.

The section that you highlight is in place to combat final value fee avoidance in the event that a prospective buyer makes contact with you to sell your Ebid listing off Ebid and you will therefore save a whopping 3% in final value fees. but no one is forbidding you from selling elsewhere.while running a like for like listing on Ebid.

I didn't see any thing about the buyer can pull it and relist it as a buy it now in this section. What it says if you "Attempts to sell off-site will mean the removal of all auctions of the seller in question". So off site is off eBids site. If you list it here and list it on eBay, Amazon, or any other site and it sells and you close it here, then you're cutting eBid out of their FVF, because you've sold off site. If you receive an email from an customer that said they would like to buy the item from you without going through the auction or buy it now, then you're selling off site. Seems pretty cut and dry.

If you close it and set it up as a buy it now for a customer, eBid will still receive its fairly due fees, because you sold it on their site. Otherwise you're, in one form or another, robbing eBid of it's due fees.

[cerealmunkee]

I think that perhaps you may have taken the rules regarding off Ebid transactions to mean that it is not allowed to list elsewhere as well as here. What the rules are saying is as follows, when we (Ebid) secure you a buyer, we expect you to carry out the transaction on Ebid to the full and pass on to us our cut of the deal(small as it may be).

"Attempting to sell offsite", means that you cannot request that a buyer send you payment outside of Ebid's site and thus cheat them out of their well deserved commission.
If you list the same item on Amazon at the same time and it sells over there, then you are not upsetting anyone by removing it from Ebid....after all under this scenario, Ebid have not secured you a buyer and no sale has resulted and therefore no final value fee would be liable to be paid.
In effect Ebid have no cause to expect a final value fee....after all, how do we know that a sale would have resulted via Ebid in the first place?

[kazeran]

You just beat me to it. I was just about to say the same thing