In addition to the normal process for revising listings, the following additional rules apply for US eBay Motors listings:

  • Site: Set Item.Site to the eBayMotors site code and specify "0" as the site ID in the request URL.

  • BuyItNowPrice: The rules for revising the Buy It Now Price for eBay Motors listings are the same as for other listings, except as follows:

    A Buy It Now Price of a vehicle listing may be added/lowered if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

    • The new Buy It Now Price must be at least $1.00 less than the original Buy It Now Price.
    • The new Buy It Now Price must be at least $1.00 greater than the current high bid price.
    • The Buy It Now Price can be lowered regardless of the amount of time remaining in the listing.

  • ReservePrice: The reserve price for US eBay Motors vehicle listings can be lowered or removed regardless of the amount of time remaining in the listing.

    Refer to Reduce a reserve price.

    Important! If you relist this item, the ReservePrice value must be equal to or less than the value of the ReservePrice in the original listing.

    If the item has no bids, set ReservePrice to any value within the following range:

    • Lowest: $0.00 (to remove the reserve price)
    • Highest: ReservePrice - 1 ( $1.00 below the current reserve price)

    If the item has bids, set ReservePrice to a value within the following range:

    • Lowest: CurrentPrice + 1 ( $1.00 above the current high bid)
    • Highest: ReservePrice - 1 ($1.00 below the current reserve price)

    If the vehicle listing has bids, then users who view the listing will see a message indicating that the next bid will meet the reserve price.

    Note: Refer to Selling fees for information about fee credits that may be available when removing a reserve price.

When retrieving items from the US eBay Motors marketplace, GetItem returns information about changes to Buy It Now and reserve prices in the ReviseStatus property of the Item object.

Revise a local market listing

In addition to the above guidelines for revising an eBay Motors listing, when revising a local market listing:

  • ReviseItem cannot be used to change a non-local listing to a local listing, and vice versa.
  • ReviseItem can be used to change the value for Item.LocalListingDistance to one of the valid values supported by the given category.