Correct.

But there are other ways to deal with the situation. Post the guy's real phone # and address along with a trumped-up story of how he screwed you over on a car forum, and watch the Internet mob harassment begin. Or just list the moron's info as an adult escort service ... hope he enjoys getting "booty calls" at all hours of the night.

(Ever seen what happened to dealers who sold a new car with no reserve, then attempted to weasel out when someone won it below market price?)

You are correct. All the buyer would have to do is report the abusive feedback to eBay and it will be removed.

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

You can reserve the right to delete bids. You can look at bidders and see if they have non-payment strikes and then delete. You can state no bids accepted from bidders with non-payment strikes. More work but you can save trouble. It is better than it used to be. Used to be you had to wait about 3 weeks to relist and get your fees back. Now I think it is more like 1 week. I used to get excuses about how their husband bought it and they didn't know and can I remove the non-payment strike. I never gave bad feedback anyway since I didn't want any.

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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra

Fleabay went to H+E+double toothpicks when they started promoting Buy It Now and giving people templates for their auctions. It used to be you could make a decent living buying stuff from people who didn't know what they had or did not know how to promote it, then selling the same items with good pictures and good promotion.

Back around 1999 I found a shareware program that would let you sequence pictures like a primative cartoon. My 360 degree views of the items I was selling drove the number of views and prices sky high. Typically 400 hits for common stuff, 800 to 1000 hits for good stuff.

Then eBay changed their focus and for the last five or six years I've been lucky to get 50 hits on great stuff. The absolute death of eBay was the "Best Match" concept. All that does it put the high volume dealers at the top the results list. If you are looking for "Mercedes Hood", you get results from high volume sellers offering "sweatshirt with hood" and "In the Hood," or hood emblems.

Now the only people that benefit from eBay's policies are troublesome buyers and overseas bulk sellers. I used to pay eBay around $200 a month in selling fees on each of my accounts, now they are lucky to get $100 a year total.

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1983 300SD "Guderian"
1987 MR2
2015 Camry
2015 Chevy Spark
2006 Hyundai Tucson

You can blame it on douchebag sellers who would leave negative feedback to buyers in retaliation for legit negative feedback they received themselves.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

Like this jerk in Reno I compete with on these silly die cast deco turn signals--theres a bubble on them which is a rare thing these days, a few other items like Deco Electroline headlights are hotroddes holy grail, Previously the hiest those headlights ever went for was $1950 a pair but this guy supposedly sold a pair with the matching taillights for $2850.00--gotta hand it to him, as long as it was not another deadbeat- flake-waste of space!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280692390787&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
And i have bought them for $25.00 at swap meets--won them for $10 on ebay before.

Meh, why is he a jerk? He's selling them for what people are willing to pay -- not a thing wrong with making a buck, especially on discretionary/luxury/collector items.

Well im not gonna post his emails to me when I decided to crash his party--he doesnt have a monopoly on these.

So he's a poor sport about it. That's definitely not cool.

Besides that his ad was almost a direct knockoff of mine from last yr--as well as polishing the case to get hundreds of dollers for them--I did it first. Now I knotice other guys doing it to various 30's die cast potmetal deco parts like the heater grill in my auction-- that im throwing in with the turn signal.

Thats interesting--the software program, Theres still ways to game their current setup --on ebay motors anyway, by stuffing the part# boxes and other brand boxes, manufacturer# ,interchange#,boxes etc--when listing-- with makes and yrs so you get 350 views within a few days.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4712.m2000054&item=130542124587&viewitem=