Seller cancelled my order 2 hours after I won.

Question

This seller didn't have a reserve price on their auction, and I won it fair and square.Right when I got home to pay after work, I saw the ebay email stating "Buyer requested cancellation approved" or something close to that.I didn't cancel or ask for it to be cancelled.I report it to ebay and they claim they are reviewing it as they saw I didn't start the cancel request.I told the seller I let ebay know and the response was "This is my first time using EBay my fault. The bid ended up being way t...

woodland_gnome · Accepted Answer

The seller should have automatically gotten a "defect" when s/he cancelled the transaction, but the lie s/he told blamed you and avoided that. "Defects" are 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).Report the lie at https://www.e...