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Sellers get minimum bid, then they cancel your order
ebay has lost a customer, last straw.. seller gets a single bid, item sells for the minimum, then the seller cancels the order with a lame excuse that he threw it out and forgot to update the listing.
eBay has lost yet another customer due to allowing this policy.
Basic criminal theft. I won the auction, I am obligated to pay, he hosts the item in an auction, he is liable to provide that item. Otherwise, it is a fraudelaunt auction practice. eBay violates the laws daily.
Thieves. Flat out.
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woodland_gnome
·2 years agoeBay doesn't violate anything. eBay has rules against what you describe and has a means of enforcing them. eBay does not have any obligation to go seize the item from the seller and ship it to you.
The seller 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.