A pensioner was forced to pay almost £12,000 to an eBay bidder who was angry he had pulled an item from sale.
Mike Godden, 72, advertised a vintage 1970s tape recorder on the auction site and invited bids starting at 99p. Offers quickly rose to more than £1,000, but when Mike, a retired music studio manager, noticed the device was damaged he decided to cancel the sale.
A German man, who was the winning bidder when the listing was pulled, then insisted he had become the unit’s owner, and demanded it be shipped to him, the Mirror reports.
