I sent the reminder 24hrs as the auction closed and there was no response and it was in good faith as I know some people can bid and forget. I also used the canned reminder that eBay has for this reminder. It was also eBay that prompted me that I can do so. Maybe I was a fool to follow eBay's instruction I suppose. I admit I could be at fault here.

It was what happened after this that things went out of wack. As I've stated previously, he initially gave the hacked response which I thought it's fine, everyone gets hacked and was hoping to redirect him that opening a new PayPal is an option if he still wants the item.

The immediate response of "I don't want it" which I thought, fair enough, thus I followed eBay's page on buyer initiated cancellation. Again, I might be a fool to follow eBay's instruction. I do not know if there's a difference and I read somewhere it's within 1 hour, but that's unofficial, I never read anywhere officially on this. Till this time, I still DO NOT KNOW IF THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. Other than one is advertised via eBay help page, and the other is advised via other sellers. I admit again, maybe I should trust you guys instead of eBay, but good learning experience non the less.

As per "Buyers don't have all the power, eBay does, and they favour buyers in most cases", is what I meant as "Buyer > Seller" as this is eBay's platform. So we're in agreement here.

I ended up finding another avenue to cancel the transaction but negative feedback remains. Though I just got another update which I'll write up again after this reply. The reason I opt to not go with UPI is buyer clearly is malicious after my "overly aggressive" attempt at following eBay's help page with the feedback, so if I do end up getting payment/sending the item in. I'll be more at risk as, again, eBay favours Buyer on the future dispute. So in the end, I let him go in the wild to traumatise other Sellers 😄