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buyatari2buyatari2
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So I've had a few of these lately. 

You get a good price and now the seller without your consent, cancels the order.

It doesn't look like you can leave feedback either.

wtf. 



Does the buyer have any recourse at all here? 

Comments

  • guillavoieguillavoie
    Wow, does it mean that even if you paid for an item the seller can just refund payment and flee out of the deal?



    I've had a transaction cancelled that way lately, but I had to confirm the decision to make it official if I'm not mistaken.
  • VGS_captmorgandrinkerVGS_captmorgandrinker

    Originally posted by: buyatari2



    So I've had a few of these lately. 

    You get a good price and now the seller without your consent, cancels the order.

    It doesn't look like you can leave feedback either.

    wtf. 



    Does the buyer have any recourse at all here? 

    You might need to wait a week to neg.  I've had that before.




  • buyatari2buyatari2

    Originally posted by: guillavoie



    Wow, does it mean that even if you paid for an item the seller can just refund payment and flee out of the deal?



    I've had a transaction cancelled that way lately, but I had to confirm the decision to make it official if I'm not mistaken.





    In all cases I did pay and it was refunded. I STILL don't have any options. 

    Never asked by seller or Ebay. 
  • kevinJkevinJ
    Usually it's from other buyers that contact the seller willing to pay more or something if it's on ebay. I've got some pretty good deals that I was worried about having the same thing happen to me.
  • CD2193CD2193
    I had it happen to me once where I won something for cheap only to have the seller very quickly claim the item broke and that he threw it away... which I am fairly sure was pure BS. Honestly, if a seller regularly one-sidedly cancels transactions without sufficient reason (like a poor feedback buyer, ebay server downtime at auction end, etc) after auctions end, I think ebay should have a mandatory cooling off period where they have to wait for a few weeks before listing anything new and eventual banning (or heck, even a CAUTION: Seller has cancelled more than X number of transactions after the item sold). Maybe like a strike system?
  • GutlingGutling
    Make sure not to accept their cancel request, and after a few days you can leave negative feedback. Also contact ebay and inform them they are taking offers outside ebay, ebay loves its fees and will look into someone circumventing them a lot quicker than they would ever help you otherwise lol.
  • nintendopower_4_evernintendopower_4_ever

    Originally posted by: Gutling



    Make sure not to accept their cancel request, and after a few days you can leave negative feedback. Also contact ebay and inform them they are taking offers outside ebay, ebay loves its fees and will look into someone circumventing them a lot quicker than they would ever help you otherwise lol.



    You don't always know what the problem was.



    I recently had a long time member here/ top rated power seller cancel a $9.79 game on me with no contact, just to relist it for $19.79 claiming price error and the listing had been sitting on ebay for at least a few days.



    It took me 5+ messages to convince them to honor the sale and I couldn't neg them even if I wanted for a week.

    I decided I should send them an extra $3 because I didn't want their children to go hungry as that was the excuse for them not wanting to ship it


  • GutlingGutling
    True, but sometimes you can get a good feeling of whats going on. I can forgive true mistakes ( something with a buy it now of .99 instead of $99)



    It just irks me the way ebay is nowadays. So many people not honoring auctions.
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