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Posted By: runscott

As a buyer, if there was an item I wanted badly, I would contact the Seller and ask him to add a "BIN" and then email me.

...and I do get irritated when someone stops an auction that I was waiting to snipe, even though there are no bids. This never happens if it is an item I want REALLY badly, because if I want it that much I will make the seller an offer before someone else does.

As a seller, I have done some things that I no longer do, mainly because of potential bidders who emailed me saying they planned to bid late in the auction and were upset that I stopped it. Like Marc said, it gives you a bad reputation and it isn't worth it. I NEVER stop auctions that have even one bid, unless there is a problem with the listing - I screwed up once and did this because of a miscommunication. It was embarassing, but I felt it better to end the auction than to renig on a previous agreement. The only safe thing to do is once you list an item, let it run to it's possibly horrible conclusion.