
A British man has been ordered by a German court to pay damages of almost £12,000 after he cancelled the sale of a vintage Studer A80 tape recorder on eBay.
According to The Mirror, Mike Godden, a retired music studio manager, listed the machine with a starting price of 99p, and bids rose to £1,380. However, he says he pulled the listing with eight days of the auction remaining when he realised that the classic reel-to-reel hardware was faulty.