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Why are sellers allowed to cancel an order after an auction is over and re-post for sale
Summary: howie-dewitt shared a frustrating experience where a seller canceled their auction win, claiming the item was damaged or unavailable, only to re-list it for sale. They criticized the seller's actions and urged eBay to implement stricter rules to prevent such practices, suggesting that such behavior should result in a ban.
Has anyone else experienced this? Within minutes of winning an auction for some cards, the seller (electronixngamez - DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS SELLER), immediately canceled the order with no message as to why other than the automatic response "item damaged or no longer available" and then proceeded to break up the card lot and re-posted for sale. Ebay needs to police these sellers better and put a rule in place for auctions stating that they cannot cancel after a winning auction bid (otherwise, what's the point of having the auction in the first place???). And the worst part is that he re-posted the cards after cancelling my order...this should be an immediate ebay ban for life...that seller is a complete tool and karma will get him.
wooden_flower
Mentor2 weeks ago@howie-dewitt
By calling it damaged or not available, the seller has already given himself a bad mark on his account - eBay has a low tolerance for these types of cancellations. But - if he is a high volume seller, he can still cancel a large number because the tolerance is a %.
You can use this page to report the seller - select violated policy - https://www.ebay.com/help/action?topicid=4022 then select doesn't want to complete transaction. In the box write 'seller lied and said damaged, but then reposted the item in a new auction'.