Do you use auction-style listings and offer shipping to Europe?

[wastingtime101]

Read about a seller that ended an auction format listing 8 days early because he noticed damage on the item, then was billed £11,600 after courts ruled in the highest bidder's favor. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11903667/Pensioner-cancelled-sale-tape-recorder-eBay-ordere...

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2023/3/1679931685.html

I don't think this would affect a seller unless they live in Europe where this law is active, but it's an interesting read nonetheless . We do get overseas posters here that might find this info helpful (and surprising).

[anasazirose]

So, ending the auction 8 days early, even though he was allowed to let it ride, he gets sued.  That's ridiculous and I hope he files an appeal.  Imagine he let the auction end.  He'd have an INAD.  Sellers lose all the way around, it seems. 

I wonder if the seller mentioned in court that the buyer had to agree to ebay's TOS, which include allowing a seller to end an auction.  AND, since the bidding was only at 1380 with 8 days left, there is no guarantee that that bidder would have won the auction, given that he claimed the tape recorder was worth 7551. 

The seller, Mr Godden, who has paid the would-be buyer, is now calling for eBay to reimburse him and said that he 'had not done anything wrong'.  Good luck with that.