I would be curious to see if the seller actually got paid. I just had a high bidder on a watch bid up the auction at the last minute, and then refuse to complete the transaction after winning.
Non-paying bidders are getting worse on Ebay and horrible on Gunbroker. One guy on Gunbroker actually told me "walmart takes returns. it's how things are, get used to it." Well, auctions aren't Walmart. Auction bids are contracts. And, it's not always people with NR or few feedbacks, at least on gunbroker. I've got one right now I'm sure I'll have to relist and this guy has several hundred feedbacks, virtually all A+'s but five for non-payment. Been a week and no response.
And Gunbroker is such a pain to get a listing fee credit, takes about a month for their process, and I don't think even then I've ever been reimbursed so I just relist and chalk it up as a loss.
The real problem is the number of people who think this is a perfectly fine way to behave.
Roger