Right, I probably am being unreasonable. In some ways this is more of a WWYD.
Warning the below is pretty much sweating the small stuff majorly having unleashed an inner Miss Marple.
Basically I placed a bid on a gorgeous top on eBay. It was lovely and I was crushed when I was outbid but having a guilt trip after a crazed frenzy of bidding on last Thursday's fast day come to a rational, mature decision on the necessity for this new top I did not increase my bid.
Twenty minutes after the auction closed I was offered second chance as the winning bidder had apparently muddled up the sizes.
I was in a bad mood and fancied a big of amateur investigation. The winning bidder has only one feedback and has bid (without winning) on lots of the sellers items.
I refused the item and said that she was obviously kind to let the winning bid change her mind. She repliesd that people make mistakes and it was all ok. At which I got a little irked and pointed out that it was probably her who was the bidder in the first place as so many of her items are bidded upon by this woman. She replied that it wasn't, that this woman often bought from her and that was why she let her change her mind.
The thing is this probably isn't true. This profile only has one feedback so why isn't the seller leaving feedback for all these frequent purchases, equally the woman doesn't appear to have won any of the sellers other items only ratcheted up the price by 50p or so.
So should I a) ignore it, it's not that big a deal and although against eBay policy she's not actually stealing or anything. b) send a self-righteous email back puffed with moral indignation laying out my evidence Poirot style. C) send a nice email back apologising for being suspicious. D) report to eBay.
And breathe.... Wowsers need to be more succinct I think