06-26-2017 09:34 PM
what is the option "send to online auction"??? I thought that is exactly what it was when you list an item open from bidding???? I am confused.
06-27-2017 01:20 PM
You have one active item as an auction format with Buy It Now enabled as an extra feature. 'Send to Online Auction' is a feature available to Buy it Now-limited listings.
06-27-2017 02:15 PM
Means your listning will show you acept aution&buyit now at same time.
06-27-2017 02:34 PM
EBay offers two kinds of listings.
Auction-- which most newbies know it for.
and Fixed Price-- which is what most experienced sellers use. (Over 85% of transactions are Fixed Price).
When your listing ends Unsold, you have the choice of relisting it as Auction or as Fixed Price.
The advantages of Auction are:
The advantages of Fixed Price are:
I think you may notice I have a preference in listing types.
EBay is one of the few online auction sites. To keep that difference, it encourages the naive new seller to use the format. Most move on pretty quickly to Fixed Price.
*Do NOT get sucked in by eBay's recommendation that you open an auction at a low price. You are unlikely to find more than one bidder, nowadays. Your opening price is the price that covers your costs (including labour) and that you would be content with.
06-27-2017 03:32 PM
It doesn't appear you've gotten an exact or correct answer to what you're asking.
"Send to Online Auction" does just what the name implies: it allows you to convert a Buy-It-Now listing to an Auction listing. The option is there for sellers who start an item as Buy-It-Now but, for one reason or another, want to convert it to an Auction at a later time. The Auction that gets set up is the same as any other Auction listing on eBay.
See the following link for more information:
https://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/fixed-price.html
06-27-2017 03:37 PM - edited 06-27-2017 03:38 PM
"The option is there for sellers who start an item as Buy-It-Now but, for one reason or another, want to convert it to an Auction at a later time"
For the sake of clarity, a seller CANNOT change the format of a listing while the listing is active.
The "send to online auction" function can only be used on ended fixed price (BIN) listings.
06-27-2017 03:42 PM
06-27-2017 03:47 PM
06-27-2017 04:02 PM
Pierre is not incorrect. You can't change the format of any listing while it is active. What the 'send to online auction' feature does is a lovely two-part movement. It ends one and starts another altogether. In one user-created step.
06-27-2017 04:06 PM
To split hairs.
It really is a nice user-friendly feature.
I've used it on numerous occasions lately to shift some items from BIN to Auction. I was over-budget on BIN and under-budget on Auction for my store subscription allotment.
06-27-2017 04:07 PM - edited 06-27-2017 04:07 PM
Oh, I wasn't saying Pierre was wrong. He's absolutely right. I was simply stating that your message about what happens to an active BIN when "Send to Online Auction" is used was correct.
06-27-2017 04:14 PM
Oh, I know.
But I felt the need originally to clarify what he said in the event it was misinterpreted by others to come.
And then I felt I should clarify that he was also correct, and that the devil is in the details of how the function operates.
06-27-2017 04:15 PM
In case a new seller thought they could only use 'Send to Online Auction' on BIN listings that had come to their natural end. The seller doesn't have to wait until they expire on their own.