Far as i'm concerned, a person who is going to sell an item they have for auction early sucks.
You wanna sell it at auction, then let it hang out and sell it for the closing bid.. don't play two or three angles at the same time.
So I wouldn't put it past a character who will do that to do even more off color things.
Now on the same token, if I WERE to do a deal like that (which I wouldn't) I sure as heck wouldn't pull the auction till I had cash in hand. (or in PayPal). If the auction closed before I recieved the jack, sorry pal.
A deal is a deal when you shake hands or exchange cash. If that clown had your money in hand before the auction closed and didn't cancel the listing and stand by his word, then he is a snake.
Altho, again.. selling items listed on eBay "under the table" is kind of smarmy, too.. and considered "fee avoidance" and can result in getting your eBay account suspended.
