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But to be fair it doesn't sound like the seller is au fait with eBay mechanics. I sympathise, it seems to change every few months.
I'm surprised at the lack of support for @English_bob, given that there are daily threads on tFB mocking eBay listings.
OP has done nothing wrong yet at least one person is calling him a dick. Sure the guy making the listing may have made a genuine mistake but back when I were a lad that was called a learning experience. We never had the snowflake police to leap in interject.
OP has even contacted the seller asking for options rather than immediately trying to force the sale through. Yet we still have the issue that eBay sales are binding except when they are not which turns out to be every single time with all the loopholes in how it works.
The whole platform is not fit for purpose any more.
Once it's all gone through I'll probably sling him an extra tenner or something PPG as a goodwill gesture.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Fair play to the seller and I'm glad you got sorted. I also have no idea why you were getting flack on here given some of the attitudes on other areas of the forum to eBay listings.
If I didn't think there was a "moral dilemma" element to this I probably wouldn't have started the thread.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Its good that it’s all sorted.
If eBay autorelist they add buy it now or best offer automatically.
Has it been relisted?
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Once the sale is agreed then it's not really his item any more. In my mind it's not right for him to decide not to sell it based on his mistake. I have no axe to grind against the seller here.
A few years ago I got rid of some stuff on Ebay and didn't really think about postage. Someone bought the stuff and after buying a big enough box and packing material, packing it up and taking it to the post office to be shipped from the UK to Ireland I was quite shocked about the cost. Can't remember the exact details but a combination of the size and weight of the box plus the destination made it very expensive. Essentially all the money I got from the sale went on fees and shipping. I still sent it to the bloke because I wasn't morally prepared to break the deal.
If I had been the buyer and been told "sorry mate I screwed up so the stuff you thought you bought and was looking forward to getting, yeah, forget it you will never see it just have your money back" I would not have been impressed. So by that logic I felt that I didn't want to do that to someone else.
So I'm as baffled by your notion that having agreed to something you can back out at any time as you are by mine notion that once you enter into an agreement you should honour it.
However, it just boils down to a difference in opinion as long as we are both prepared to stick to what we believe to be right when we are on either side of the buyer/seller equation.