Originally Posted by
miamijim
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.
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.
This was not an honest mistake. The emails sent back and forth tell me otherwise. This was an experienced seller.
An example of an honest mistake was when someone sent me the wrong frame. It wasn't a bad frame, it was a similar frame, something I might have bid on otherwise. But shipping it back would double the cost to the seller. We came up with a reasonable price for me to keep it, just a bit of a discount over what I think the market price was. I went ahead and paid for the sellers shipping cost, even though the seller offered it to me shipped for free.
That's the way I like to do business.
Just keeping karma matriculating the ball downfield.