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I won the bid on a 2 items because he didn't make enough money for these item so he canceled these items and he won't let me bid on anything now or forever I'm not the only one these have been on because 3x I want ebay to take him off because If I was to put a bid on am Item and I win I am expected to pay and I always do He told me to wait till the Canada postal strike but he never contacted me again just to take me off of being able to put bids one what ever he has or will be I need to be respe...

woodland_gnome · Answer

Did you pay? Did you get a full refund?

If the seller cancelled the transaction (if you paid that would have triggered a full refund) s/he already got a "defect" when s/he cancelled the transaction (unless s/he lied to eBay to blame you, in which case we'd need details especially what eBay said the reason was in the cancellation notice). That is the primary tool eBay uses to weed out bad sellers, downgrading the selling status of those who get too many relative to their sales volume (as opposed to having to pay employees to actually investigate to see how likely it was that the seller had a legitimate reason to cancel vs. deliberate policy violations).

You may leave appropriate (calm, factual--if the seller said that x was the reason say "seller said x. . ." so people don't think you are just jumping to conclusions) feedback to warn future buyers/bidders. If the usual links have vanished, go to anyone's Feedback Profile (doesn't matter who, click on the feedback score in parentheses behind the username) then scroll down to below the last comment on that page to find a "Leave feedback" link that doesn't vanish (it brings you to a list of items you can leave feedback for).

Theoretically you could sue the seller for breach of the contract of sale (for the difference between the auction price and what you ended up having to pay for a replacement), but that is almost never practical.