what would you do if

I would say, why don't you pay for it as per contract and then you can list it?

That's up to you... For me it would depend on the $'s involved and how much trouble it was to list. (IF they are being honest)

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I recieved it long after I bid on yours.

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I find this a VERY strange statement.

When did they bid and when was the auction end? When did they recieve this 'other item'. Why didn't they cancel their bid? (no answer needed, just something for YOU to think about)

Sounds to me like they found another for less money than their win at your auction.

(edit) Mrs.M, GREAT idea, let them list and resell it!!

Isn't it clearly against E-Bay rules to alter the agreement by either party? The only place I see where you can deviate is after the item was paid for and received. then you can negotiate. The bid is clearly a contract to buy - Hold him to it.

Yeah, I think I am going with Mrs.M's advice

The buyer is a newbie, registered Jan 04, has 14 pos feedbacks/ 0 neg

He bid on my item Feb 20 ( ended last night ) I can see on his feedback that he did a BIN for same item from another seller on Feb 25, must of paid with paypal as seller left positive feedback already

Not sure why he did not retract his bid, ( maybe he did not know how ) He did pay more from other seller than what my item ended at

I think I will tell him he now owns 2 of them and to paypal me asap

Jet, especially since he ended up with the other one because he bought it after he bid on your's!! Too bad, so sad!

I had this happen to me once - when *I* didn't want the item. What I did was contact the next highest bidder and the seller. I paid the difference between my bid and the next lower one and had the seller ship the item to the other guy (after he paid his bid). Seller got his high bid, eBay got their $$ and a buyer was happy (and I was very relieved).

Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'

I wrote him this, we will see what happens

When you bought the other xxx, why didn't you do a bid retraction on my item?? you had pleanty of time, you bid on my item 2/20, you bought other xxx 2/25, and my auction ended 2/26, that gave you more than enough time to cancell your bid

I am sorry you now own 2 xxx, you can relist one of them and sell it if that is what you want to do. Please remember your bid is a contract, and you had pleanty of time to retract it

Please paypal the payment to me or let me know if you need my home address for money order, ( use the paypal link on the auction)

you may want to contact the 2nd place bidder and see if he still wants it, maybe you can sell it to him
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...to think about offering....

OK, I'll let you out of the contract with NO bad FB if you paypal me the ebay sales expenses for your "non-sale" and to relist again.

I've done that before....

Jabbergah                                                    

he wrote me back and said he would paypal me tomorrow, and did not retract bid because "The bid retraction requirements, as I understand them, don't allow for this situation."