Say that he is obligated to carry out the transaction, if he cancels negative feedback. Maybe report to eBay. Otherwise just leave it and don’t give a negative.
A lot of unprofessional people getting into dealing cards. Any dealer with this attitude will soon find themselves out of business, eBay will ban them eventually. And once eBay properly bans you, you cannot get back on for life essentially. A negative feedback is not worth $40, he may have to learn this the hard way.
The guy should just do a buy it now, maybe including an option for offers listing.
Many years ago (2014? 2015? Around then). I bought two 1st Edition Gym holos from someone with no grasp whatsoever on how to spell the names of Pokémon. We’re talking Moletree, Arkanine, Rychui kinda stuff. They also had “Rocket Hitmanchamp” - which is what spurred the memory.
I won two of their listings for the $1 starting bid, presumably because they didn’t spell any of the Pokémon’s names right and it didn’t show up in people’s searches - or maybe if it did it didn’t inspire any confidence.
Anyway within minutes of me paying they informed me “the cards were stolen can’t sell.” I was like… you had your cards stolen or you found out the cards were stolen goods? And they replied “yeah”. I checked their listings and saw they had already relisted the same cards at fixed prices.
I was going to leave him negative feedback but their account was banned the next day.
What a distant memory now.
Demand they send you the card you won at the price you bid, or leave negative feedback and escalate with eBay chat and a report, hopefully the seller gets kicked off tbh. That’s just not acceptable.
You must not know how ebay works, this happens all the time and good luck demanding a seller to sell you anything. He won’t be kicked off for this and you end up just wasting your time. Take the refund and go on your way.
I was able to see which card you tried to buy and the final bid price - this seller is out of his mind if he thinks it’s worth more than that. Seems like a dumb case of seller’s remorse.
I think it’s rather unnecessary and somewhat offensive to assert that I don’t know how eBay works. I’ve been buying and selling on eBay since 2009 and I have a pretty good idea of how eBay works. I’m also quite sure that such a bait and switch tactic is against their terms of service, as is generally refusing to honor the sale of an item you placed up for bid.
I’ve unfortunately had to report people on eBay in just this last week alone for 1.) asking me to send payment outside of eBay and 2.) verbal harassment through private messages. I have a decent amount of faith in their reporting system and I think it should be used aggressively to report sellers who operate outside of their terms and service.
You may see it as a waste of time but I’d like to press eBay to enforce their own rules.
As I was frustrated by it, I of course wanted to flame the guy and laying out that if he didnt send id be leaving him with bad feedback and reporting to ebay but after realizing that he’s not a storefront, not a mass seller, and this likely was one of his first items to sell, Im giving him the benefit on not tanking his feedback immediately. If he returns the payment in full I’ll move on, you all can see his name so put him on a block list if you want, and Ive let him know that he should understand the risks with auctions and take this as a lesson. Which funnily enough, is pretty much what @jim7, suggested as well.
Yes it does suck when people do this, and its a scummy move to even try, but nothing I do will get me the card and after seeing how some other members blow up about bad feedback (although they do everything correctly), I figure everyone has to start learning somewhere. Maybe he does it again, maybe he learns a lesson about pricing low, either way as long as I get a refund then Im not out anything.
@smokemon, I laughed way to hard at that somewhat terrifying mashup
My pleasure my treasure. I kinda wish it had 2 boxing gloves but one can dream
Also I think you’re handling the eBay issue very well 
If the card would have sold for $40 more than his expectation, would he send you a similar message and offer to partially refund you?
He put the card up for auction. It sold. He should mail it to you now that you’ve paid. If he doesn’t, don’t hesitate for a second to leave a negative review (with details so other potential buyers are made aware) and send a complaint to ebay.
www.ebay.com/itm/363402288872 When you have a timestamp in MS Paint instead of a piece of paper, it’s not even your own eBay name, and you forgot to crop the screenshot you’ve made. 
Greetz,
Quuador
Who puts a reserve on a light piloswine
www.ebay.com/itm/234015112952?hash=item367c633ef8%3Ag%3AAiAAAOSwKvdgpMn-&LH_Auction=1
I’m totally with you. It’s always worth it to report sellers who do bad shit, especially if you have solid proof that they’re violating the TOS. eBay tends to deal with this kind of thing pretty harshly. Even if nothing comes of it, I think “don’t waste your time, they won’t face any repercussions” is a bad mentality on principle… The only way to guarantee that they don’t face any repercussions is by being too lazy and apathetic to file a report.
Feel free to do it. Its too common of an occurrence and ebay is VERY lax with their rules. I just choose not to respond anymore to messages that are stupid or asking about an IG, nor get worked up when someone cancels a sale. I also don’t report people for harassment because I don’t get upset when someone says something mean to me online.
Nor do I, as a rule, but I think it’s worth the two minutes it takes to do it on the slim chance that I can help prevent another seller from having to deal with some idiot’s bullshit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fair, I understand the reasoning why people would, I just block and move on. Negative feedback is the only thing I will leave for a seller who cancelled and relisted or refused.
The people who have -1 feedback
Man, you can’t write this stuff. I wonder what is the maximum amount of negative feedback points one can get?
The dude’s only feedback is from three different people. All negative. Yikes…
