Amiga items on eBay -- advertising auctions on classiccmp

I fell for that once as a newbie seller. Come to find out that the high bid was another of his usernames that was obviously expendable and he jacked it up high on that username to keep anyone else from bidding more. Then when I couldn't reach the high bidder and got the email I almost went for it but remembered that ebay allowed you to get telephone and address info on bidders - I had the email from the lower bidder that made the offer and when I got the info on the welcher I found that it was the SAME person. Imagine that, one was listed as the full name, another as the first initial with the full last name. Guess who got to email customer support at ebay...they let me relist for free and it sold in between the fake bid and the one he wanted me to bite on, with a real bidder as both the other bidder's accounts were closed permanently. Seems he'd been doing this a lot when they went back and contacted previous sellers. The thing I love that they've done is to allow up to 1000 usernames to be barred from your auctions. Had a ditz in Illinois (not that people from Il are ditzes, I'm a Chicago native) that bid on a 55SX PS/2 that I had on auction and I was in a "move it out" mood that day and closed the auction early to get the thing rolling (before buy-it-now was available). He got a fully tested and nice machine with one little mar on the finish and a small amount of dust inside (after all they are "used"). He (or she - was a unisex name, Chris) writes me to say that I sent a junk unit that was all banged up and dirty. I think the buyer had a junker that they wanted to replace in the collection and keep the good one while getting me to refund them for the junker. I don't refund squat. It goes out good (or in the listed condition if not good) and it's final. If it gets damaged in shipment it has insurance. This ditz posts negative feedback on me. No problem - that username is on my "no can bid" list now and apparently it irks this person too as before I posted the username on the barred list I had to cancel another of the bids for that name. Problem solved, no more "polbit".