I bid on a chair on eBay a couple of months back, and I won! Only £35 - it was a bargain. I paid the following day and was making plans to drive to pick up the chair when the seller cancelled my order and refunded me. They messaged me and said that they were sorry but they were going through a divorce and their (soon to be ex) husband wanted the chair back. I was miffed but I accepted this - I messaged them back saying how sorry I was to hear about their troubles and asked, on the off chance that her husband changed his mind on the chair, if she would consider reselling it to me. She said yes and that was that.
Fast forward a couple of months and I’m on eBay again, and the chair pops up! Same seller. Only this time they set a reserve on the item. I chance my luck placing a bid but I don’t hit the reserve. I then message the seller, explaining the situation and they tell me their ex husband no longer wanted the chair but made a point of reminding her it originally cost over £100, and so that is what the reserve was now set at, and that she simply didn’t have the time to message me.
Basically, I want to know if anything can be done here? I know eBay can’t exactly force her to sell it to me at the original price, it’s all just very annoying and I don’t feel sellers should be allowed to just cancel orders and re-list if the price they get isn’t to their liking. At the very least I know I can leave negative feedback on the cancelled sale, but is that just being petty?
Have any of you experienced something like this? What did you do/what would you do?