Sale had to be aborted
Hello, I had to cancel a sale for personal reasons. I was just in the middle of it when a buyer pressed buy. I tried to explain the situation to this buyer and now he wants to sue me for damages of 1,000 euros. That can't be right either. Or can it? Best regards, Peter
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lidor3073
·3 weeks agoIs it about the defective women's watch worth 14 euros, which is why the buyer also left the negative review? OMG.
bixtron
·3 weeks agoThen let the buyer do it and prove the €1,000 damage that was incurred..
Those are overreactions, just like how a lot of people always come up with fraud & police. As a private seller, you won't have sold anything on eBay that the buyer then had to compulsively buy somewhere else for €1,000.00 more.. I don't believe it. No damage will have been incurred in any other way either.
roter_rauch
·3 weeks ago · EditedThat can’t be answered with a simple yes/no @66petri_0 .
The decisive question is whether you can show a justified "grounds for rescission", e.g. errors when listing/mistyping the starting price, just as examples. And whether you reacted "immediately" after noticing the mistake. Google it yourself. Lawyers and courts have been dealing with this topic for decades in all possible variations.
PS: if it’s about an antique watch for 14€, which may be made of white gold (??), the resulting damage is initially exactly 14€, since gold/fine gold/real gold was not described by you anywhere. And you certainly refunded that.
There was once a ruling about a gold coin or something that turned out to be a fake, and the buyer successfully sued the seller for several thousand euros in damages. In your case it’s different: you never claimed to be offering a watch made of precious metal. (If that’s even what this watch is about. )
perfect-sally
·3 weeks agoYes, that can be the case, because you have a legally valid purchase contract. Your private reasons won’t interest the buyer, and if he takes legal action against you, you’ll get the short end of the stick.