Has this happend to you?

PTong88
PTong88 Posts: 37
edited September 2008 in The Clubhouse
Have you ever set an item on EBay as an auction and had the option to Buy It Now, and then later you come to find out that the Buy It Now option you had originally set disappears? It just happened to me on my SurroundBar listing on EBay. I have 25 watchers, it's currently going for $82. Would that ratio affect my listing at all? I had to set it Buy It Now at $369, and the day after *poof* gone goes the Buy It Now.

Any explanation guys?
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited September 2008
    Did someone bid on it? Unless you set the option to keep the BIN active, the BIN disappears with the first bid if I remember correctly.
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  • PTong88
    PTong88 Posts: 37
    edited September 2008
    Well, I have 5 bidders so far. But I've seen many items continue to be Buy It Now even as people were bidding. You could be right though and I could be remembering incorrectly. Can others confirm this statement? "Unless you set the option to keep the BIN active, the BIN disappears with the first bid if I remember correctly."
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    polkaudio RM30 (Cntr)
    polkaudio RM7400T (Frnt L & R)
    polkaudio RM6902 (Surr L & R)
    polkaudio RM 6901 (Rear L & R)
    polkaudio DSW Pro 400 Sub (Front & Rear Sub)
    SAMSUNG HPS-5053, APC C2
    Microsoft XBox 360 Elite, Microsoft Xbox, SONY PlayStation 3, SONY Playstation 2, Nintendo Wii, SNES, Nintendo
    SONY CDP-CX455, SONY CDP-NC85H
    Monster HTS 5100 SS MKII, Monster PowerCenter SW 200, Monster PowerCenter AV 200
    Logitech Harmony 550
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited September 2008
    You have to set a reserve for the BIN to stay active. Once that reserve is met, or if there is no reserve and a bidder places the minimum opening bid, the BIN is gone.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2008
    ^^^^
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited September 2008
    It's possible the high bidder made your Buy-it-now his top bid. That doesn't guarantee you'll get that, but if he did, it pretty much guarantees him winning it.
    You can always tweak it back in, you can edit an auction in progress, iirc.
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  • PTong88
    PTong88 Posts: 37
    edited September 2008
    Thanks a bunch guys. You've really cleared it up.
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    polkaudio RM30 (Cntr)
    polkaudio RM7400T (Frnt L & R)
    polkaudio RM6902 (Surr L & R)
    polkaudio RM 6901 (Rear L & R)
    polkaudio DSW Pro 400 Sub (Front & Rear Sub)
    SAMSUNG HPS-5053, APC C2
    Microsoft XBox 360 Elite, Microsoft Xbox, SONY PlayStation 3, SONY Playstation 2, Nintendo Wii, SNES, Nintendo
    SONY CDP-CX455, SONY CDP-NC85H
    Monster HTS 5100 SS MKII, Monster PowerCenter SW 200, Monster PowerCenter AV 200
    Logitech Harmony 550
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