Car seller won't honor his ebay auction

[Craig_Maiorana]

I had the same scenario go down on E-bay except I was at the sellers house when he ended the auction. I even shook his hand and said ok cool 2,400 for the truck he said yup. Ok cool be by tomorrow with the money and a trailer. He wouldn't answer e-mails or phone calls even hung up on my wife. Finally she got ahold of him and said he wasn't selling it to me for that price. We flagged his account left whatever negative feed back that we could and moved on. Had this happened back east and not in California I may have gone back to his house and thrown him a whooping. Its best to walk away. Some of these sellers aren't worth getting jammed up over. Chalk it up as a life lesson.

[bbbentley]

School of Hard Knocks tuition VS.Good deals, I think I am about even [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/cry.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/sick.gif[/img]...still a bunch of good guys in the hobby.

[Jim_Hauls]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TimG</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Guys,

I bought a car on a no reserve ebay auction fair and square and the seller backed out of the sale. He also cancelled his Pay Pal account so I couldn’t pay him. I’ve asked him for his mail address and he won’t respond. We did correspond through ebay numerous times during the auction. He still has the car, he thought it was worth more. I don’t know if I want to pursue this, but I’m wondering what my options are.

</div></div>

Why would you want to pursue this ?

Nothing is bought until it is paid for.

People change their mind about selling cars - about who they marry ...

Move on .... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]



Jim [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]

[Mr. Chevy]

The seller should have put a RESERVE on the auction.. But that is part of what is called &quot;wanting his cake and eating it too&quot;. I'm sure he didn't want a reserve to scare off potential buyers, but then when things didn't go the seller's way he wanted to back out... Just a bunch of [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/bs.gif[/img]

Rich

[enio45]

print his name, info and ID so we are aware!

[TimG]

Jim,

Thousands of cars will go through auctions within the next two weeks in Florida and Arizona. When the gavel comes down and you buy/sell a car, try to get out of it even though money has not changed hands.

[GTO_DON]

I know of lots of people over the years that did t honor their deal. Usually you are banned from buying or selling anymore but that's about it. Sorry it didn't work out for you Tim but you can't make anyone sell their car at the end of the day. Trust me I know first hand.

[Mr70]

That's different Tim because those auction houses hold the cars &amp; the paperwork for those cars in their hands,that they're selling for their sellers at that short window in time underneath their tent.And have permission to access private financial information about the buyer/seller too,so basically have both buyer &amp; seller by the balls financially.
eBay,although global wide,is far away from both buyer &amp; seller &amp; the auction item,as well as sells 24/7,so they can't physically pursue every single far away buyer &amp; seller who won't follow through 24/7.
All eBay really sells,is time...

[TimG]

So it appears there's little or no recourse with an ebay auction aside from a sellers integrity.

That's a shame.

[MosportGreen66]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TimG</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So it appears there's little or no recourse with an ebay auction aside from a sellers integrity.

That's a shame.
</div></div>

They won't even kick him off ebay?