Strange Ebay Occurrence - Item Sold For Less Than Best Offer

Odd. Sounds like maybe the seller rejected yours then decided they needed to sell it and took the next offer, even though it was lower than yours. Maybe.

I know I've had offers rejected only to see that they turn around and sell the coin at the same price. Oh well.

yep, what they said... seller rejected your offer too quickly. When I used to sell "best offer" items, I would wait as long as possible to reject bids, hoping to avoid that exact situation. Messed me up one time when I had 3 items for sale and the top offers each wanted 2... had to reject one of those offers and sell to the number 3 bid. (Hope that made sense.)

There was unfortunately no opportunity to bid as it was a Buy it Now with a Best Offer option.

I think what happened is that the buyer set an automatic rejection on offers below a certain amount. So my $255 offer was rejected. Then, when it didn't sell, they lowered/changed the parameters of the auction and accepted the $240 offer. I did an ebay chat with customer service and this was their explanation. They said once an offer was rejected, the seller couldn't go back to it.

So they lost $15 and I didn't get a really nice coin. This would have filled the last slot in my 7070. Oh well, disappointed but I guess there are other fish in the sea.

Here's the auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...270520226796