[duke knooby]

Originally Posted by CarylB

I don't know .. eBay are keen enough to point out when you bid you've entered into a legally binding contract and if you are the winning bidder you must pay. Cuts both ways imo. The seller has been registered for 2 years, has over 150 transactions, and should have sufficient experience to know that if there's a minimum you're prepared to let the item go for then you need to put a reserve on it. You can't withdraw an item from normal auctions after the hammer's gone down, and the same principles apply on eBay.

If your transaction has been completed via Paypal, the money has automatically gone into the seller's account, so the transaction is complete, and Michael has paid for the goods, the contract should be fulfilled.

My experiences on eBay are very good. I have nearly 1500 transactions, only let down by one seller, who eventually coughed up a refund .. and one experience where the seller sent the wrong items to two of us. The other buyer got what should have been sent to me and refused to return it (it was much higher value than the thing they'd bought) which was pretty tacky imo. But my seller refunded all I'd paid including the postage for returning the wrong item to him.

In this case imo it's seller beware, and Michael should get the item he won and paid for.

Caryl

nice one... like i said, ive had no dealings with ebay or paypal... was only throwing questions...