I once watched some buy bid up and up on a piece of stereo equipment I was selling. He kept outbidding another buyer right up until the auction ended. Within minutes, he e-mailed me to say he changed his mind and didn’t want it. And then you have to wait a couple of weeks and fill out all sorts of forms to get your final value fees refunded. It’s ridiculous that you won’t be able to warn other sellers about those types.
WOW...from your experience, it suggests that all of those warning signs that a bidder sees that “your bid is a legal contract” are merely a waste of bandwidth on the eBay site. That’s very sad, and as a reputable buyer (who has quite a few “I wish that all eBayers were like this guy” statements among his feedback comments that were left by sellers) it really ticks me off because it tells me that I’ve been playing by the rules for no particular reason other than my own moral and ethical code.
If this thing proceeds as planned, it seems that a great many good sellers may be disenchanted and leave, as we’re already seeing on this thread.