I bid on and won two auctions for bikes from one seller on Ebay. Before bidding, I emailed the seller and asked if the s/h costs would be waived if I made the pick-up. The seller agreed to this. Those costs would have been $50 per bike. (The seller is only about an hour away.)

I won one bike for $26 and the other for $1. The only reason I went even as high as the (admittedly modest) $26 bike was because I knew I was already in for a short car trip to get the other.

So, I thought I had a major score getting two bikes for a grand total of $27.

But......

Before sending off my payment tonight I wanted to get a day/time to pick them up. And now the seller has decided that that is just too cheap. At first he asked for a round $50. Then he refused to sell altogether. Then, he mysteriously sent me a new Ebay invoice for one bike with $100 shipping tacked on.

What recourse do I have? I have not paid yet. Should I, to force his hand? How does one make an effective complaint to Ebay?

disappointedly, jim