I recently recieved the following from ebay:
Dear xxxxx:

Congratulations on your recent winning bid for xxxxxx, NEW SEAL QUANTUM 9.2GB ATLAS 10,000RPM SCSI. Your seller, xxxxxx, has contacted eBay for their auction credit and let us know that you’ve both decided to forgo the transaction.

If this is correct, do nothing and enjoy your time on eBay. However, if this is not correct (you have received the item and intend to keep it), please let us know by writing to safeharbor@ebay.com and include "Not Correct" in the subject line of your email.

Thanks for your assistance.

Regards,

eBay SafeHarbor Team


Having not had an issue with ebay in the past, can some ebay savy person explain WTF I just got?

A little background info, I purchased two drives in seperate auctions from the seller back at the end of Nov. One was a regular ebay auction, the other was a buy it now type thing(the one for which I recieved the above email. I used Paypal to pay for the drives($61 to my door for both). I have recieved the drives and installed them. He left feedback on one of the auctions but not the one I recieved the above email for. I have left feedback for both. Since recieving confirmation of the drives being sent, I have not heard from the seller.

Is this a new method of scamming on ebay?

I've already sent email as requested saying there was no "both decided to forgo the transaction" because I have not been contacted.

Any help would be appreciated on this. I hate to see my 61 good feedbacks get fawked up because someone is being an asshole.

sounds like the seller is trying to scam ebay into giving them their listing fees back.

maybe the seller forgot that you won both auctions. I would email him and ask him whats up. Maybe it was an accident. Hes just trying to get his lising fees back.