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T206CollectorI think a simple email to a seller is appropriate as such: "please do not end your auction early. If you do, please give me a chance to beat any off-line offers."
When a seller engages you to sell offline, that's the same as any negotiation on Net54 or any other cyber realm -- caveat emptor.
If the seller and the buyer reach agreement, it is at least bad form for the seller to reneg or for a third party to interfere, with knowledge of the prior deal.
The fact that it started on ebay is entirely besides the point. The decision to go offline is between the seller and ebay. The buyer has no contract with ebay.
Here, Jamie likely had a binding contract with the seller, who breached the deal--perhaps as the result of tortious interference.
And, to add insult to injury, Jamie is now hearing it from the usual chorus of those who dislike off ebay deals.
I've been there and it is pretty annoying for a number of reasons.
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