What action can I take against seller refusing to sell at winning bid price

[SeeingRed]

7 day auction - and the only auction that this seller had listed during that period.

I win for a price which is low but 50p above the starting price. I pay up pronto, as usual for me, as I need the item urgently. Other reasonably similar items have sold for similar in the past week and some for more but then some had a higher starting price.

Seller returns my paypal payment with a message to say she listed it as starting at £XY.00 , ebay have made a listing mistake starting it at £Y.00 and the auction should have started at a considerable amount more, she has notified ebay of the error with her auction and is taking the matter up with them.

This is bull right ?

She had 7 days to spot the error including the time when she first listed the item (remember the only item she has listed for sale for a couple of years).

Apart from that, she presumably checked periodically on her auction, we generally do don't we, curiosity gets the better of us ?

The item was listed as costing £100 when new but I've only her word for that (can't believe everything you read on the internet).

I'm using a brand new ebay ID that certain people who know my old ID can't check up on (what is it with some people and respecting others privacy ?) so I haven't been a member for 5 days and can't leave her a negative.

I can't chase it up as not received as
a) it isn't outside of her delivery terms yet obviously
b) she has refunded my payment so paypal tells e-bay there is no problem here.

I've made a small loss on selling a couple of items in the past due to low start prices but I've always honoured the auction contract and chalked it up to experience.

Any suggestions from experienced e-bayers.

[mindyourown1]

you just report them to eBay, with a copy of their message, as a non performing seller and neg them with low stars.

[SeeingRed]

I'll have to wait until I'm no longer a new ebayer to do that and I'm mad as hell now. Still revenge is a dish...... etc

I hope she relists them at £XY.00 and gets no bids.

No doubt she'll block me from bidding anyway.

[mindyourown1]

you can report them to eBay though?

[Chopstheduck]

It is soo frustrating when this happens. Unfortunately. all that will ultimately happen is she will get a tickign off from ebay and that will be the end of it. :(

[momb]

Report as non-performing seller. It's all you can do.

[glammanana]

This has happened twice to me this past month,once on a winning bid for a ladies Next Mac and once for a new pair of PJ's still wrapped,the mac lady said she couldn't honour the sale as she left it out in the yard and her dog pee'd on it ??? and the PJ's where sold elsewhere by the blokes wife 2 weeks before the sale completed what is wrong with these people ?? I hate having to report for non-performance but it is happening far too often now people will still get sales if they put on a realistic price.

[SeeingRed]

Seller now has a big fat negative. In shopping a lot on ebay recently I've noticed a few "seller would sell at final price" negs in peoples feedback.

Would be nice if ebay introduced a fine system to help make such flaky would be sellers think twice about doing it.

[SeeingRed]

Doh! "seller wouldn't sell at final price"