AddSecondChanceItem

Use this call to create a second-chance offer (that is, an offer for an unsold item) for one of that item's non-winning bidders.

AddSecondChanceItem creates a special type of listing in which only the specified second-chance offer recipient may purchase the item. The recipient who is chosen by the seller must be one of the non-winning bidders from the ended listing. The listing must have ended with a winning bidder, but the item did not sell for some reason. For example, the winning bidder, for whatever reason, did not purchase the item. Alternately, the seller may offer an item that is similar to the one previously listed as a Second-Chance Offer item. In this case, the specified recipient may be either one of the non-winning bidders, or the winning bidder in the ended listing.

Use GetAllBidders to retrieve a list of bidders from the item that ended. The seller needs to select the recipient for the second chance offer from this list.

For general information on second chance offers and more detailed information on using AddSecondChanceItem, see Making Second Chance Offers for Items.

Request Details

To call AddSecondChanceItem, the requestor must be the one who listed the original item and the item must meet the second-chance offer eligibility requirements (see Determining Item Eligibility for a Second Chance Offer).

AddSecondChanceItem takes as input the following values:

ItemID - The original listing's item ID.
RecipientBidderUserID - The eBay user ID for the recipient of the offer.
Duration - The length of time the offer is valid.
SellerMessage - Optionally, a message to the buyer.

If the call is successful, it returns the following information:

ItemID - The new listing's item ID.
StartTime - The start date and time for the listing.
EndTime - The date and time the listing ends.

When you create a second-chance offer, eBay sends the recipient a message letting them know that the offer has been made. The price of the offer is normally set to the highest bid the recipient made on the original item.

Note that sending a second-chance offer, a new listing is not created on the eBay site. Instead, a special item is created for the targeted buyer. If you want to relist an item, use RelistItem, this can help to save on relisting fees.

Use VerifyAddSecondChanceItem to test an item's definition before calling AddSecondChanceItem. This can reduce the number of item listing errors the application needs to handle.

Testing AddSecondChanceItem

You can test AddSecondChanceItem in the Sandbox environment. To test the call, you need three or more test users. One test user is needed to act as the seller, the others act as bidders.

List an item using the seller test user (use a Chinese auction).
Have two or more other test users submit bids on the item. This can be done in the Sandbox UI (http://sandbox.ebay.com).
Have the seller end the item early using EndItem with EndingReason set to SellToHighBidder, which results in the listing ending as a successfully concluded auction with a winning bidder.
Call AddSecondChanceItem to extend a second-chance offer to one of the non-winning test users that bid on the item.
Use an item data retrieval call (like GetSellerList or GetItem) to retrieve the data for the second-chance offer you just created. Verify that the listing has all of the desired values, including the value in the Item.ListingDetails.SecondChanceOriginalItemID property: it should contain the item ID for the original listing.
Optionally perform a search using findItemsAdvanced (Finding API). This search should use criteria that would definitely find the item. The second-chance offer listing should not appear in the GetSearchResults result set.

Related Information

See Making Second Chance Offers for Items.

See also the reference documentation for these calls:

GetAllBidders - Provides three modes for retrieving a list of the users that bid on a listing.
VerifyAddSecondChanceItem - Simulates the creation of a new Second Chance Offer listing of an item without actually creating a listing.

AddSecondChanceItem Input

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See also the Deprecated Objects link above. Fields presented in this color are deprecated, and fields presented in this color are (or soon will be) non-operational.

The XML prototype does not include requester credentials. This is a documentation limitation only (see Standard Requester Credentials for Making Calls).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AddSecondChanceItemRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <!-- Call-specific Input Fields -->
  <BuyItNowPrice> AmountType (double) </BuyItNowPrice>
  <Duration> SecondChanceOfferDurationCodeType </Duration>
  <ItemID> ItemIDType (string) </ItemID>
  <RecipientBidderUserID> UserIDType (string) </RecipientBidderUserID>
  <SellerMessage> string </SellerMessage>
  <!-- Standard Input Fields -->
  <ErrorLanguage> string </ErrorLanguage>
  <MessageID> string </MessageID>
  <Version> string </Version>
  <WarningLevel> WarningLevelCodeType </WarningLevel>
</AddSecondChanceItemRequest>

Argument	Type	Occurrence	Meaning

Call-specific Input Fields [Jump to standard fields]

BuyItNowPrice	AmountType (double)	Optional	The amount the offer recipient must pay to purchase the item from the second chance offer listing. Use only when the original item was listed in an eBay Motors vehicle category (or in some categories on U.S. and international sites for high-priced items, such as items in many U.S. and Canada Business and Industrial categories) and it ended unsold because the reserve price was not met. Otherwise, eBay establishes the price and no price should be submitted.
Duration	SecondChanceOfferDurationCodeType	Required	Specifies the length of time the second chance offer listing will be active. The recipient bidder has that much time to purchase the item or the listing expires. Applicable values: • CustomCode (in/out) This value is reserved for internal or future use. • Days_1 (in/out) The seller specifies this value to make the Second Chance offer available to the bidder for one day. This value will affect the EndTime value returned in the AddSecondChanceItem response. • Days_3 (in/out) The seller specifies this value to make the Second Chance offer available to the bidder for three days. This value will affect the EndTime value returned in the AddSecondChanceItem response. • Days_5 (in/out) The seller specifies this value to make the Second Chance offer available to the bidder for five days. This value will affect the EndTime value returned in the AddSecondChanceItem response. • Days_7 (in/out) The seller specifies this value to make the Second Chance offer available to the bidder for seven days. This value will affect the EndTime value returned in the AddSecondChanceItem response.
ItemID	ItemIDType (string)	Required	Specifies the item ID for the original, ended listing from which the second chance offer item comes. A new ItemID is returned for the second chance offer item. Max length: 19 (Note: The eBay database specifies 38. Currently, Item IDs are usually 9 to 12 digits).
RecipientBidderUserID	UserIDType (string)	Required	Specifies the bidder from the original, ended listing to whom the seller is extending the second chance offer. Specify only one RecipientBidderUserID per call. If multiple users are specified (each in a RecipientBidderUserID node), only the last one specified receives the offer.
SellerMessage	string	Optional	Message content. Cannot contain HTML, asterisks, or quotes. This content is included in the second chance offer email sent to the recipient, which can be retrieved with GetMyMessages. Max length: 1000.

Standard Input Fields

ErrorLanguage	string	Optional	Use ErrorLanguage to return error strings for the call in a different language from the language commonly associated with the site that the requesting user is registered with. Specify the standard RFC 3066 language identification tag (e.g., en_US). ID--- country ----- ----- de_AT Austria de_CH Switzerland de_DE Germany en_AU Australia en_CA Canada en_GB United Kingdom en_SG Singapore en_US United States es_ES Spain fr_BE Belgium (French) fr_CA Canada (French) fr_FR France it_IT Italy nl_BE Belgium (Dutch) nl_NL Netherlands zh_CN China en_IN India en_IE Ireland zh_HK Hong Kong See Tags for the Identification of Languages.
MessageID	string	Optional	Most Trading API calls support a MessageID element in the request and a CorrelationID element in the response. If you pass in a MessageID in a request, the same value will be returned in the CorrelationID field in the response. Pairing these values can help you track and confirm that a response is returned for every request and to match specific responses to specific requests. If you do not pass a MessageID value in the request, CorrelationID is not returned. Note: GetCategories is designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, the MessageID and CorrelationID fields aren't applicable. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, MessageID and CorrelationID are applicable.
Version	string	Conditional	The version number of the API code that you are programming against (e.g., 549). The version you specify for a call has these basic effects: - It indicates the version of the code lists and other data that eBay should use to process your request. - It indicates the schema version you are using. You need to use a version that is greater than or equal to the lowest supported version. For the SOAP API: If you are using the SOAP API, this field is required. Specify the version of the WSDL your application is using. For the XML API: If you are using the XML API, this field has no effect. Instead, specify the version in the X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL HTTP header. (If you specify Version in the body of an XML API request and it is different from the value in the HTTP header, eBay returns an informational warning that the value in the HTTP header was used instead.) See: Routing the Request (Gateway URLs) eBay Schema Versioning Strategy Lowest Supported Version
WarningLevel	WarningLevelCodeType	Optional	Controls whether or not to return warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in a request. An unrecognized element is one that is not defined in any supported version of the schema. Schema element names are case-sensitive, so using WarningLevel can also help you remove any potential hidden bugs within your application due to incorrect case or spelling in field names before you put your application into the Production environment. WarningLevel only validates elements; it doesn't validate XML attributes. It also doesn't control warnings related to user-entered strings or numbers, or warnings for logical errors. We recommend that you only use this during development and debugging. Do not use this in requests in your production code. Applicable values: • High (in) Return warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in a request. • Low (in) Do not return warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in a request. This is the default value if WarningLevel is not specified. See Warning Level.

AddSecondChanceItem Output

The box below lists all fields that might be returned in the response. To learn more about an individual field or its type, click its name in the box (or scroll down to find it in the table below the box).

See also Samples.

See also the Deprecated Objects link above. Fields presented in this color are deprecated, and fields presented in this color are not returned (or soon will not be returned) or are not operational (or soon will be non-operational).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AddSecondChanceItemResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <!-- Call-specific Output Fields -->
  <EndTime> dateTime </EndTime>
  <ItemID> ItemIDType (string) </ItemID>
  <StartTime> dateTime </StartTime>
  <!-- Standard Output Fields -->
  <Ack> AckCodeType </Ack>
  <Build> string </Build>
  <CorrelationID> string </CorrelationID>
  <DuplicateInvocationDetails> DuplicateInvocationDetailsType
    <DuplicateInvocationID> UUIDType (string) </DuplicateInvocationID>
    <InvocationTrackingID> string </InvocationTrackingID>
    <Status> InvocationStatusType </Status>
  </DuplicateInvocationDetails>
  <Errors> ErrorType
    <ErrorClassification> ErrorClassificationCodeType </ErrorClassification>
    <ErrorCode> token </ErrorCode>
    <ErrorParameters ParamID="string"> ErrorParameterType
      <Value> string </Value>
    </ErrorParameters>
    <!-- ... more ErrorParameters nodes allowed here ... -->
    <LongMessage> string </LongMessage>
    <SeverityCode> SeverityCodeType </SeverityCode>
    <ShortMessage> string </ShortMessage>
  </Errors>
  <!-- ... more Errors nodes allowed here ... -->
  <HardExpirationWarning> string </HardExpirationWarning>
  <Timestamp> dateTime </Timestamp>
  <Version> string </Version>
</AddSecondChanceItemResponse>

Return Value	Type	Occurrence	Meaning

Call-specific Output Fields [Jump to standard fields]

EndTime	dateTime	Always	Indicates the date and time when the second chance offer listing expires, at which time the listing ends (if the recipient user does not purchase the item first).
ItemID	ItemIDType (string)	Always	Contains the item ID for the new second chance offer listing. Different from the original ItemID passed in the request. Max length: 19 (Note: The eBay database specifies 38. Currently, Item IDs are usually 9 to 12 digits).
StartTime	dateTime	Always	Indicates the date and time when the the new second chance offer listing became active and the recipient user could purchase the item.

Standard Output Fields

Ack	AckCodeType	Always	A token representing the application-level acknowledgement code that indicates the response status (e.g., success). The AckCodeType list specifies the possible values for Ack. Applicable values: • CustomCode (out) Reserved for internal or future use. • Failure (out) Request processing failed • Success (out) Request processing succeeded • Warning (out) Request processing completed with warning information being included in the response message (Not all values in AckCodeType apply to this field.)
Build	string	Always	This refers to the specific software build that eBay used when processing the request and generating the response. This includes the version number plus additional information. eBay Developer Support may request the build information when helping you resolve technical issues.
CorrelationID	string	Conditionally	Most Trading API calls support a MessageID element in the request and a CorrelationID element in the response. If you pass in a MessageID in a request, the same value will be returned in the CorrelationID field in the response. Pairing these values can help you track and confirm that a response is returned for every request and to match specific responses to specific requests. If you do not pass a MessageID value in the request, CorrelationID is not returned. Note: GetCategories is designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, the MessageID and CorrelationID fields aren't applicable. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, MessageID and CorrelationID are applicable.
DuplicateInvocationDetails	DuplicateInvocationDetailsType	Conditionally	Information that explains a failure due to a duplicate InvocationID being passed in.
DuplicateInvocationDetails .DuplicateInvocationID	UUIDType (string)	Conditionally	The duplicate InvocationID.
DuplicateInvocationDetails .InvocationTrackingID	string	Conditionally	The id that identifies the business item the previous API invocation created. For example, the ItemID of the item created by an AddItem call.
DuplicateInvocationDetails .Status	InvocationStatusType	Conditionally	The status of the previous call that used the InvocationID. Applicable values: • CustomCode • Failure (out) • InProgress (out) • Success (out)
Errors	ErrorType	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	A list of application-level errors (if any) that occurred when eBay processed the request. See Error Handling.
Errors.ErrorClassification	ErrorClassificationCodeType	Conditionally	API errors are divided between two classes: system errors and request errors. Applicable values: • CustomCode (out) Reserved for internal or future use. • RequestError (out) An error has occurred either as a result of a problem in the sending application or because the application's end-user has attempted to submit invalid data (or missing data). In these cases, do not retry the request. The problem must be corrected before the request can be made again. If the problem is due to something in the application (such as a missing required field), the application must be changed. If the problem is a result of end-user data, the application must alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for the end-user to correct the data. Once the problem in the application or data is resolved, resend the request to eBay with the corrected data. • SystemError (out) Indicates that an error has occurred on the eBay system side, such as a database or server down. An application can retry the request as-is a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form.
Errors.ErrorCode	token	Conditionally	A unique code that identifies the particular error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms. See the "Errors by Number" document.
Errors.ErrorParameters	ErrorParameterType	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	This optional element carries a list of context-specific error variables that indicate details about the error condition. These are useful when multiple instances of ErrorType are returned.
Errors.ErrorParameters [ attribute ParamID ]	string	Conditionally	The index of the parameter in the list of parameter types returned within the error type.
Errors.ErrorParameters.Value	string	Conditionally	The value of the variable (e.g., the attribute set ID)
Errors.LongMessage	string	Conditionally	A more detailed description of the condition that raised the error.
Errors.SeverityCode	SeverityCodeType	Conditionally	Indicates whether the error is a severe error (causing the request to fail) or an informational error (a warning) that should be communicated to the user. Applicable values: • CustomCode (out) Reserved for internal or future use • Error (out) Application-level error • Warning (out) Warning or informational error
Errors.ShortMessage	string	Conditionally	A brief description of the condition that raised the error.
HardExpirationWarning	string	Conditionally	Expiration date of the user's authentication token. Only returned within the 7-day period prior to a token's expiration. To ensure that user authentication tokens are secure and to help avoid a user's token being compromised, tokens have a limited life span. A token is only valid for a period of time (set by eBay). After this amount of time has passed, the token expires and must be replaced with a new token.
Timestamp	dateTime	Always	This value represents the date and time when eBay processed the request. The time zone of this value is GMT and the format is the ISO 8601 date and time format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ). See Time Values in the eBay Web Services guide for information about this time format and converting to and from the GMT time zone. Note: GetCategories and other Trading API calls are designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, this time value reflects the time the cached response was created. Thus, this value is not necessarily when the request was processed. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, this time value does reflect when the request was processed.
Version	string	Always	The version of the response payload schema. Indicates the version of the schema that eBay used to process the request. See "Standard Data for All Calls" in the eBay Web Services Guide for information on using the response version when troubleshooting "CustomCode" values that appear in the response.

AddSecondChanceItem Detail Controls

Detail Control: DetailLevel

This call does not support varying Detail Levels. You do not need to pass DetailLevel in the request.

AddSecondChanceItem Samples

New to making API calls? Please see Routing the Request.

Note: Some item IDs, user IDs, or other data in these samples might no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, you can substitute current eBay data in your requests.

Sample: Basic Call

Extends a Second Chance Offer to a bidder that did not win the auction.

Description

Bountiful Buyer bid on a book, but did not win the auction. The seller (Magical Bookseller) came across another copy of the book in the same condition, and decided to offer the second copy to the second-highest bidder, Bountiful Buyer.

When a Second Chance Offer is created, the recipient is given a chance to purchase the item at the highest price that they bid on the original item. eBay sends the buyer a message stating that the Second Chance Offer has been made, along with any message the seller included in the offer.

Input

XML format (HTTP POST). Also available is the .txt version of this XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AddSecondChanceItemRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <RequesterCredentials>
    <eBayAuthToken>ABC...123</eBayAuthToken>
  </RequesterCredentials>
  <RecipientBidderUserID>bountifulbuyer</RecipientBidderUserID>
  <Duration>Days_3</Duration>
  <ItemID>110042668801</ItemID>
  <SellerMessage>
    I just got another copy of the book in stock, would
    you be interested in purchasing the copy?
  </SellerMessage>
</AddSecondChanceItemRequest>

Output

XML format. Also available is the .txt version of this XML.

<AddSecondChanceItemResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <Timestamp>2009-12-22T17:45:31.032Z</Timestamp>
  <Ack>Success</Ack>
  <Version>643</Version>
  <Build>E643_CORE_BUNDLED_10284414_R1</Build>
  <ItemID>110042668984</ItemID>
  <StartTime>2009-12-22T17:45:30.000Z</StartTime>
  <EndTime>2009-12-25T17:45:30.000Z</EndTime>
</AddSecondChanceItemResponse>

AddSecondChanceItem Change History

Version	Description
529 2007-09-05	Fees (doc change): The sample has been updated and corrected so it no longer has the Fees container in the output.
499 2007-02-07	CopyEmailToSeller, Fees, Site (modified): Deleted previously deprecated objects from the latest schema. Some of these objects are still supported with lower request versions. See Deprecated Objects.
479 2006-09-20	InvocationID (doc change): InvocationID is not recommended for use as a unique identifier input for calls that list items. It has been removed from the list of elements that apply to AddSecondChanceItem.
457 2006-04-19	SellerMessage (added): Sellers can use this field to send a message to the non-winning buyer that they are giving the Second Chance Offer to.
449 2006-02-22	BuyItNowPrice (modified): For second chance offers, just as in the case of Motors items, if the original listing was in some of the categories for high-priced items (such as items in many U.S. and Canada Business and Industrial categories) and the auction ended without the reserve price met, the seller can specify the price in BuyItNowPrice. For more information, see "Make a Second Chance Offer".
409 2005-5-18	InvocationID (added): Call now supports this input parameter.

User-Contributed Notes

eBay Trading API Call Reference Version 827