I really don't understand why a seller would end an auction early for an offer. I know that some buyers try to bully sellers into ending their auctions early. I have heard that some have said things like: "If you don't sell to me right now for $X.XX, then I guarantee I won't continue to bid on your auction and you will lose money on it."
Come on really? If a seller is getting bids and offers outside of eBay, then why don't they realize that they have a desirable item and let the auction run its course?
This hasn't happened to me with pre-war cards (yet), but it has happened a few times with Leather Football Helmets, which I also collect. One helmet that I was really interested in last fall ended early. I contacted the seller and told him that I was really interested. I didn't ask him to end the auction early, rather I asked him to let it go the distance and that I guaranteed him that I would be the high bidder and he agreed. A day later he ended the auction for another buyer for about $300 - $500 less than I told him that I guaranteed him. I had to scratch my head.
It happened again last week with a leather football helmet. Someone got to the seller and had him end the auction early on the first day of the listing.
Don't sellers get it? Wouldn't an auction setting, where there is interest, guarantee the seller the most money 99 times out of 100? I don't know how many times and how many hundreds of dollars I have seen left on the table when sellers end auctions early.
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