Could be cold feet, or it could be that the automated emails that the ebay system is sending them are getting misidentified as spam and filtered out. Or it could be something else.
I’m thinking cold feet. The first guy claimed that he e-mailed me, and that I had not responded. I checked my spam folders (I get every other inquiry from E-bay, so it would indeed be anomalous that this one was filtered from my e-mail) and the e-mail was not there. When I e-mailed him back and asked him to forward the original e-mail, he got very quiet.
I think this happens all the time. Not much to do but negative-feedback him and relist the item. I don’t know what eBay policies are for waiving a fee for a relist if the buyer doesn’t pay.
I won two auctions last week and sold nothing, so this is all buyer’s end.
After completing the purchases AND e-mailing the auctioner (I always do this, buying or seling), I got no less than 10 e-mails from eBay of other sellers giving me the tracking info of the packages they sent. In each e-mail, a different buyer was listed than my username. In fact, they were auctions I was not a part of. So, I replied to each of them that eBay ws acting screwy and I was getting their e-mails. No, I was not getting the merch, just the e-mails.
So…, I would chalk it up to an eBay system glitch. If I werr you, I would reply person to person and not just through eBay’s system. It seems their mail is currently FUBAR.
Hmmm. . . I think you are right about the Ebay e-mail glitch. But in the second case I’m talking about, I did just that, and the guy still claimed I never sent him anything. Unless E-bay is giving out wrong winning bidder e-mail info, and like the sellers in your case, some other guy was getting this guy’s e-mails. I’m trying to make it Ebay’s fault and not the buyer’s. But I guess I’m just too cynical.