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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1925185, member: 4626&quot;]Only story I have is a buyer who wasn&#039;t actually corrupt (and it wasn&#039;t a coin I was selling; it was a DVD of the Simpsons), just annoying.&nbsp; Someone bid on it and won it; they also bid on the same item from another seller who was charging like $2 less than I did (ironically he ended upo paying that person even more lol... because that seller was padding the shipping) then decided he didn&#039;t want to pay me for mine and honor his winning bid.&nbsp; I&#039;ve made mistakes before but I don&#039;t make others pay for them, and this one really annoyed me, especially as he got all indignant for daring to suggest that a winning bid is actually a binding contract (which it is btw, both legally and in eBay policies).&nbsp; I tried to be nice about it but eventually gave him a negative (you could actually give buyers negatives back then; I think eBay ceasing to allow sellers to give buyers negative feedback is one of the dumbest policies they&#039;ve ever adopted!&nbsp; Buyers should have a reputation to protect too, and their reputation should suffer if they try to scam sellers or even just jerk them around.); his response was something to the degree of &quot;whatever, it was just a misunderstanding.&quot;&nbsp; To what degree he simply &quot;misunderstood&quot; the rules, I don&#039;t really care; ignorance of the rules does not excuse someone from the duty to follow them (and I tried telling him as much in the most polite way I could manage).&nbsp; Besides which, I think it was pretty clear he was just trying to shop around for a better deal after the fact when someone listed the same item as me for slightly less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually eBay came around to the fact that they catered to the buyers so much that the sellers weren&#039;t wanting to sell there anymore (also it was basically letting the buyers proverbially get away with murder lol...) ; you have to keep <i>both</i> sides of the transaction happy if you want an auction site to continue to exist lol... buyers&#039; protections are all well and good but sellers need to be protected from buyers abusing the system too.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t like selling on eBay and rarely do so anymore (it just seems like such a hassle and the PayPal fees kill too much of the profit I&#039;d ever make doing so).&nbsp; If I do list anything I only put in a &quot;Buy It Now&quot; price and set the opening bid for the same as BIN.&nbsp; (I also almost never buy anything off of eBay except for BIN.&nbsp; I hate trying to compete with snipers lol...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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