eBay listing oversight

[thecatspajamas]

If for some reason you did decide to end them early and re-list, as others have said, contact all of the underbidders, and explain in the listing why they were ended early and relisted, and wait some time before relisting. Even then, you're taking a chance.

Seeing a unique item being sold twice by the same seller is one of those things that will set off the "spidey sense" of many collectors, no matter how plausible your explanation. Unless several months had passed to erase it from their memory, I would expect more lost revenue from the "this just doesn't feel right, I'll take a pass" crowd than from those that happened to miss the listing because they weren't browsing the right category.