eBay question

[swarmee]

Yes, you can revise it to be a Buy-It-Now from your seller's dashboard.

Edit: does it already have bids? Maybe you should let it ride. Many people try to get sellers to end early in order to reduce the overall price.

[quitcrab]

Question solved... Thanks

[SMPEP]

Bad idea to end it early. That's almost never in the seller's interest (although it is in the buyer's interest).

[Jim65]

Be careful about ending auction early especially if someone messaged you about the item. Red flag to Ebay and they could suspend your account

[hcv123]

My policy:

If I am very educated on a particular item, I have no problem ending early for the "right price". If I am less or unfamiliar - I let it finish - have had both upside (mostly) and downside surprises.

[steve B]

When I was selling, I only had maybe 5-6 offers to end an auction early. I don't do that. All those items ended up selling for more than the offer. Most for about 5x the offer.

Plus, at the time ebay had language that posting an auction was a contractual agreement to sell the item for the high bid unless there was a reserve.

It wastes peoples time looking at auctions and putting them in watching/ setting bids etc.
So thinks for being "that guy" if there was a blocked seller list you'd be on it.

[mckinneyj]

fwiw... if one clicks on "contact seller" on the page of an ebay auction you will be presented with a "select a topic" pick list that includes a "make an offer" selection. If you select it and the item does not already have a "make offer" option you will be informed that "The seller hasn't enabled offers for this item. See if they'll consider — send a message with your best price." So, ebay is not discouraging making offers (though they will expect the seller to consummate any sale via ebay - they'll also likely not permit any exchange of email addresses via their messaging unless well obfuscated).