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Posted By: tbob

As a guy who has sold many, many cards on ebay, I've never ended one of my auctions early. On the flip side, I have asked to have other auctions ended early, especially when there are no bids yet. Some do, some don't. Almost without fail it is because it is a particularly tough card for me to find. I almost always offer about what I think the card is worth vis a vis book value, often more if it is a card I really need like a violet E94 or a 150 series subset 1910 Obak. I don't see a problem with this practice because ebay allows sellers to end auctions early, pull cards which aren't getting the bid the seller wants, etc.
Twice I have struck a deal on a really tough card, only to have someone squirrel the deal by haranguing the seller (one case blackmailing him) to relist the card and not sell it early. The first time, I eventually got the card anyway when I won it in a Sloate auction after it passed through at least 2 hands and the 2nd time, recently, I now feel that I was probably saved a lot of money because the card is a fake.
Just my 2 cents and notice I didn't even mention the fact that several other posters here do the same thing and I do this as often as not to keep from having a card pulled out from under me. Ooops, I just did mention it