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[pacificpikachu]

Have to rant about this because it's seriously weird and makes me mad. Could use some advice! Or maybe I just want to share and get opinions, I don't know.

I won the Grand Party Pokémon card on Ebay six days ago for around $47 including shipping. I was excited to win it after dreaming of having it for so long. After no contact from the seller for those six days, I received a message today saying that they sold the item at Japanese auction to another buyer. What? I won it fairly and paid for the item immediately, what do you mean you sold it at Japanese auction? They're trying to cancel the transaction. I don't think this is fair at all. The card was up for auction, not on Buy It Now.

I feel like maybe they wanted to get more for the card because the exchange rate is so awful and I won it for starting bid. But after I already won it and paid for it, that just does not seem like an excuse. They should have put a reserve on it if they didn't want to sell it for that price.

For now I declined the cancel transaction request because I want to see if I can still get the card. I have a bad feeling it already went off to whoever won it in Japan (but maybe not, I can hope), but it's worth a shot. I was so excited to win this card for such a good price and I feel that this is totally unfair!

Comments

[kyogres.livejournal.com]

I've never had a seller cancel on me after I paid (though I have had sellers take down auctions that remained at the starting bid for too long) so I'm not sure what to tell you. ebay and Paypal do tend to side with the buyer instead of the seller. Have you filed a complaint with either of them? I would try ebay first.

Unfortunately, I don't think ebay will be able to force him to sell you the card if he already shipped it to another person. But if all else fails, you could get a refund and probably leave the seller negative feedback. (I'm assuming it would let you do the latter since you paid, but like I said, I've never been in this situation.)

[kyogres.livejournal.com]

Oh, and let me just add that things like this are one of the many reasons I'm starting to hate ebay. Sellers seem to get away with everything these days. I had someone revoke my 99 cent starting bid, then cancel the auction when I placed the bid again. Back in my day, if a seller cancelled too many auctions--especially ones with BIDS--they would get their account flagged or suspended.

[koyaaniisqatsi.livejournal.com]

What the hell. :| Can you open up a dispute about it?

[pheonixxfoxx.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is just plan dirty!! I would contact eBay about it, like you said you did win the card fair and square! If they did not want to sell the card for so cheap, then either start the auction higher or put a reserve on it...

[vehemence.livejournal.com]

That's actually something about eBay that I've always been curious about (as someone whose never bought or sold anything on there)-- is the seller bound to sell their item to an auction winner if they decide they dont want to? That would be kinda disturbing to me... Cause like it is their property to begin with. Idk! I guess it would depend on what point in the process eBay defines as being the official transferral of property and rights over that property from seller to buyer.