Another Ebay Q

[bednobs]

hi i sold a pick up only item on sunday. Just after the auction ended i was contacted by someone else who had tried to bid in the last few moments and it hadn't gone thru. She asked if i would sell it to her at a higher price than i previously got, I replied saying i would sell to her if the first person fell thru. Today the silly first person got on to me saying it was too far for her to come!
so i contacted the second person to say they could buy it. I would like to sell it to her off ebay to save the fianl fee but how do i now withdraw it/stop selling it to the first person?

[DJHawkes]

the first bidder has to request her bid be withdrawn i think. but doing the deal off ebay now is i think against their rules, though quite how they would enforce them i don;t know, the other person withdraws their bid, you agree to it and then you have to convince ebay the sale did not go through and they cancel the final value fee.

[Sharingan]

Go to the resolution centre and you will see an option to cancel the transaction whereby no-one has a strike against their name- and you mutually consent to cancel the transaction. Choose this option for the first bidder and ask them to agree to it so you don't get chareged a final valuation fee.To complete the sale off ebay contact the second person via your email account, ( not via ebay messages) and arrange as you would if you had sold it via the newspaper.

[EDDIE51]

You have to ask the first buyer to cancel the transaction. You have to start the process by clicking on the cancel a transaction link in 'my ebay' you need to give a reason for the cancellation, there is a drop down list of reasons, one of which is buyer can not complete the transaction , which seems to cover this.