I'm assuming you mean my response. I've never canceled for a reason like this nor would I ever. I never even been put in a situation where it was asked of me, so it's not even something I've ever really thought about except for the one time I heard it discussed on the Scavenger Life Podcast which is why I brought up that example. They were always giving the advice to never ever cancel even if someone offers you more, but when it did come down to a difference of multiple hundreds of dollars she made a one time exception and ate the negative feedback and oos cancellation defect, and I don't remember her getting any back lash from the large ebay community that follow them.
I think I made it pretty clear he shouldn't ruin his new his account that way, But knowing that everyone would just come on here and say NOOOOO you're not allowed to cancel!!! I was trying to come in from a more relatable perspective to have the same effect of convincing him not to cancel.
Basically I was saying it's stupid and will hurt your account so don't even consider it at all unless the difference is hundreds of dollars. I should have looked at his account but I was definitely assuming the difference was only like $50 and that my post would convince him not to cancel.
It's always extremely unprofessional to cancel like this but morally it's not worse than people who are getting an item mailed back to them due to the fault of the buyer, and just keeping the item and not refunding the buyer which I see plenty of people doing on here. In one thread I felt like I was disagreeing with everyone else by saying it was not right to keep the money AND the item and that the OP should just volunteer a refund minus original shipping even if had been over 30 days.
Everything is a balance and you will see people on here saying somebody should ship something even if they lose Hundreds of dollars on the sale to ship something that is huge, just because they meant to only set it to local pick up but didn't. I guess I'm not as black-and-white.
