Don't be too hard on the seller. Selling a pinball is a 9.8% fee to Ebay.. add the Paypal fees and its not a cheap exercise. What is cheap though is the "free to list" Ebay offers you, so its a great place to advertise but shit to sell. If you are going to pull an auction it has to be done before the last 24hrs and if price looks like its going too cheap for what you want for it then its easy to get twitchy and pull.
Don't forget that Ebay stopped Australia from having the reserve price stating that people were listing to find the value of something not to sell... its complete bullshit as Reserve Price is still available overseas.. for some reason we get a different set of rules.
Bearing that in mind I don't blame any potential Ebay seller for using the system rather than accepting it. Ebay have manipulated the whole charade to their advantage and so sellers have the right to do the same.
Personally, I have no qualms whatsoever about exploiting Ebay to my benefit. The only real reason I list stencils is not to make a sale via Ebay but mainly for free advertising about my service. I sell very little on there.. the amount of enquiries though is another matter.
Has anyone who has ever really wanted a certain title that's listed not contacted the seller to see if a deal can be done away from the site to secure it?.. Your bloody daft if you haven't.. most people do!
