When an Ebay seller backs out...

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by UnVme7

Thank you all. I suppose the few thousand dollars difference from what I paid to what the item is actually valued at is probably not worth the hassle. But it sure pisses me off!

But I will say, I've noticed this trend quite often. 2 in the last month and probably 5 in the last yr for me. EBay makes it so easy that if the seller doesn't get what they want, they refund it, get a negative feedback and move on. It's stupid.

Then the seller consigns it, and shills it up

[Peter_Spaeth]

Not worth the aggravation. Just chalk it up to yet another unethical ebay seller and move on.

[vintage954]

Ebay will do absolutely nothing about it. ALL they care about is money. I won an ernie banks rookie one time for $175 and it was a super steal, don't even ask me how it happened but I paypal'd the funds immediately. The next morning I wake up with a refund and a message stating that he could not sell it for that price and he was sorry. I spoke to ebay and hes still a seller to this day.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by vintage954

Ebay will do absolutely nothing about it. ALL they care about is money. I won an ernie banks rookie one time for $175 and it was a super steal, don't even ask me how it happened but I paypal'd the funds immediately. The next morning I wake up with a refund and a message stating that he could not sell it for that price and he was sorry. I spoke to ebay and hes still a seller to this day.

+1, big time....

[Jay Wolt]

eBay should care about it, since the seller voided the auction price and either sold it higher off of eBay
or didn't sell it all & either way eBay is out their fees & that they do care about.

[Republicaninmass]

I was wondering if ebay has a way to track messages after the fact. That way we could tell ebay about the auction/seller in question, and they could see the sellers correspondence

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

I was wondering if ebay has a way to track messages after the fact. That way we could tell ebay about the auction/seller in question, and they could see the sellers correspondence

Yes, ebay personnel can see anything you send in a message. They don't necessarily read every message, but do routinely go back and read correspondence when disputes arise. Having access to this back-and-forth communication is one reason they block email addresses from being included in your messages. They don't want you having buyer/seller communication that they are not privy to. The other (bigger) reason is they don't want you arranging deals outside of ebay where they don't get a cut.