Some sellers cannot afford such hits. I contacted this particular seller and he thought it was because the high bidder was a zero-feedback bidder. I gave him the details of last night's system-wide event and he will not be selling at the half-price bid. It was a non-baseball rare item that several collectors had snipes ready for. Very doubtful I would have gotten it even at $2,400. This got me to wondering, though - if I had put in a bid prior to the outage and won the item for a song, would I have been pissed when the seller refused to sell? Knowing the problems ebay was having, I like to think I wouldn't have
