I thought a seller couldn't end an auction early if you bi

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I thought a seller couldn't end an auction early if you bid on it? An auction I had manually bid on and then scheduled for Gixen ended 3 days early. (Someone won, it wasn't just closed)
Is this allowed?

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7129

I believe sellers can end auctions early even with bids placed, just not in the last 12 hours. Someone else can confirm this.

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7599 Location: Bristol, UK

Sellers can definitely cancel all bids and end auctions early.

They can also end the auction early and sell to the current high bidder at the current auction price, this appears to be what happened in your case.

You would have to ask the the seller why they did it though.
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Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject:

I can't post more than a few words without an error.

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Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:50 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:53 pm Post subject:

Seems like I've always heard if you bid on an item the seller can't change the end time.

Why would anyone want to end an auction when there is aggressive bidding going on?

Makes sniping futile if the seller does this.

Sorry about the test posts, I've been getting error messages when trying to post since yesterday.

Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:56 pm Post subject:

Error in posting

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INSERT INTO posts_text (post_id, post_subject, bbcode_uid, post_text) VALUES (11077, '', '7f9419958b',
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Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:59 pm Post subject:

Mario do you know what's going on?

Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject:

On the above post got:
Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 504 5.3.3 AUTH mechanism LOGIN not available

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Line : 126
File : smtp.php

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7599 Location: Bristol, UK

Yes, I've been getting errors like that when posting here recently, the posts do seem to appear despite the error though... I haven't had any errors today though.
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Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7599 Location: Bristol, UK

I spoke too soon, that last post produced:

Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 504 5.3.3 AUTH mechanism LOGIN not available

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Line : 126
File : smtp.php

... but as before the post still appeared.
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mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7129

Not sure why phpbb tried to use AUTH, but I found that piece of code in phpbb and disabled it. Please let me know if you see any similar problem again, or if forum notifications don't work for you.