Quick Ebay question

[Brettfan]

Hello,

Need a little help here~

I listed an item on Ebay last night and clearly stated in my auction that I only accept bidders from the US and Canada.

Of course, right away I get a couple bids from people in Taiwan and currently the high bidder is from Taiwan.

He/she also contacted me about what price I'd take on a Buy It Now.

Do I just go in and cancel these bids as they place them or do I wait until the auction is over and see who the winning bidder is?

Never really ran into this before.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Melissa

 

[mintman2]

Hey Melissa,
You can cancel bids as they're placed or you can cancel the listing. Unfortunately, I believe if you cancel the listing, after there are bids there's now a penalty to be paid. You can say whatever you want in your description but it makes no difference. In the future you need to make sure that bidders are blocked from countries you don't want bidding. Somewhere in your seller preferences under excluded countries, or something like that.

 

[Dilferules]

I would say you should cancel all bids, cancel the listing, and re-list it with your options set to only accept bids from the U.S. and Canada. If you just cancel the bids and keep the auction running, you run the risk of somebody from Asia sniping it, where you won't have the ability to cancel the bid. Then they'd have the ability to hit you with a negative when you don't sell it to them. Even though they are clearly in the wrong, you'd have to hope eBay would wipe the neg, and they might not...better not to deal with the headache.
Richard

 

[dankir96]

I would allow them to bid and explain to them that shipping will be x amount of dollars more if they win.

 

[BoomerSooner]

I would let the auction run its course- if another bidder outbids the taiwan guy, you get more $$$. If the taiwan guy wins it, you have 2 options per Ebay rules: cancel the entire auction (does not cost anything, you will get a refund of your fee) or sell it to him with whatever added shipping costs you two agree on. This EXACT thing happened to me in october- I thought my description inidcating only US bidders was accurate, but there actually are 2 places where you now have to indicate your bidder preferences- just saying US bidders only will not stop outside bidders anymore.