Originally Posted by
gugie
If you still decide not to sell, you are breaking a contractural obligation. For this amount, it's not worth a lawsuit, but I will leave enough bad feedback so that you'll have a difficult time selling here again. All you have on eBay is your reputation and rating, yours is at risk right now.
Judges?
What he did is NOT against Ebay rules. Backing out of a sale allows sellers to correct an 'honest mistake' i.e. mis-pricing auction or perhaps choosing the wrong auction format.
And I don't think you can leave negative feedback because a completed transaction never occurred.
Is it shady on his part? Yes. Will there be repercussions? Maybe, maybe not.
As a moderate Ebay seller it really sucks when I make and honest mistake and someone swoops in for the auction because of the honest mistake.