Posted By:
Josh K.Todd,
Not to further a "fight" (heck, its not even my problem) but where I would have to disagree with you is with the fact that Lee contacted the seller as soon as he realized his bid was a mistake - prior to the auction concluding. The bid could not be withdrawn due to the timing (I assume it was w/in the last 24hrs of the auction) but the seller acknowledged the mistake and agreed to ignore his bid - in retrospect, the seller should have manually cancelled the bid (which I think you can always do as a seller regardless of the timing). Lee then "won" the item with the incorrect bid and again notified the seller of the problem and the seller then agreed a second time to ignore the bid.
The seller's decision not to offer the second chance option is really irrelevant whether it would have been accepted or not since he knew in advance that the bid was an error.