Bid item disappears with 1 hour left to go

[box42bottom67]

  I was watching a Geiger Counter and was going to put a bid on it... there was about 1 hour left to go ["time left"] and then POOF - its not there in my watch list anymore.

 Can sellers just pull an item like that? It doesn't seem fair - they should put a minimum price on it if they are going to be unhappy with the bids.

   I don't have any details about it because the ad is totally gone now.

[dmil8030]

Hello 'box42',

Sellers can pull their items in certain circumstances, and ebay can also remove items for

various reasons.

The following link will tell you about sellers ending listings early:

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/end_early.html#reasons

Whilst it is certainly true that sellers occasionally end a listing at the last minute if they are

not getting their price and fear they may not get it by the end of the auction, there are just as

many times when the item is found to have something wrong with it, not working, etc.

If you had put a bid on it, even the most minuscule possible, and the listing was ended by the

seller, you would have had notice of this.  If ebay had removed the listing, they'd have sent you a

note saying it is not longer available.

Sellers need to cancel bids before ending listings early.  You can read about it here:

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/manage_bidders_ov.html#canceling

And if you want to know why ebay removes listings sometimes, there's this:

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/questions/listing-ended.html

Hope some of that helps.