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I am trying to list an auction with BIN and Reserve Price auction on eBay UK. As far as I have verified that the category supports the Reserve Price option.
However I am getting the following error "The given Reserve Price for this item is not allowed" (#17410). Here is a XML snippet of my request and response
<BuyItNowPrice >60.00</BuyItNowPrice>
<ReservePrice>30.00</ReservePrice><StartPrice>0.99</StartPrice>
<PrimaryCategory>
<CategoryID>31569</CategoryID>
</PrimaryCategory>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<VerifyAddItemResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<Timestamp>2022-08-11T11:00:03.295Z</Timestamp>
<Ack>Failure</Ack>
<Errors>
<ShortMessage>Invalid reserve price.</ShortMessage>
<LongMessage>The given Reserve Price for this item is not allowed.</LongMessage>
<ErrorCode>17410</ErrorCode>
<SeverityCode>Error</SeverityCode>
<ErrorParameters ParamID="0"><Value>£50.00</Value></ErrorParameters>
<ErrorClassification>RequestError</ErrorClassification>
</Errors>
.....
You are right, the category does support reserve price, but it also places a restriction on the min. reserve price (50 in this case). Since the reserve price you are specifying is less than the minimum reserve price allowed, you are getting that error.
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <GetCategoriesResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> <Timestamp>2022-08-11T11:38:03.295Z</Timestamp> <Ack>Success</Ack> <Version>1219</Version> <Build>E1219_CORE_APICATALOG_19146446_R1</Build> ...... <ReservePriceAllowed>true</ReservePriceAllowed> <MinimumReservePrice>50.0</MinimumReservePrice> </GetCategoriesResponse> |
If you specify the reserve price to be greater than or equal to 50, your request should go through fine.
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