any time i make an offer and know i am going offline a tell the seller when i can pay, that way if they accept they know the funds will be coming but if i were that seller i would never close any other ad's i have for the item until money is in hand. i did'nt see that they had sold until lunch today so i pm'd ovrrdrive right away. if ovrrdrive's payment came in before the ebay guys i would have refunded the ebay guys and honored ovrrdrive's. here is my last pm to ovrrdrive, you decide if i was wrong:
"well if i listed it here first yes, but i listed it on ebay over an hour before here and it sold at 2 this morning. you said $400 shipped, i said okay and waited a while then it showed you were offline. if you had paid for it i would have canceled the auction. i'm not going to end an auction without the funds, done that before and then the guy never paid or got back to me."
a22shady, i have seen them go for $300-$350 also, but most of the time only the 1st and 2nd stages, not an octo. people pay what something is worth to them and when you are talking about a $750-$800 rig 1/2 price is a hell of a deal.