@thecatspjs wrote:
Nothwithstanding, I have had sellers decline my offers, and others that did not respond in any way, I have yet to strike a seller who has explicitly advised me that they have got any issue with my terms nor one that has accepted an offer, after terms regarding timeline for my offer have passed.
Except for a small number on these boards, I generally find the vast majority of sellers I deal with very open-minded to getting a sale.
I'm not saying you have breached any policies, as I said I can't be sure what they are definitively because my understanding of them is based on how eBay provide them - that is, erring on the side of implicit rather than explicit. However, in regards to the OP, the best offer is explicity supposed to be for the item price only. If the OP had auto-accept activated, they would not have been given the chance to see the "inc delivery to Melbourne", and I have a vague memory of a similar circumstance (post sale) brought to the boards a long time ago and the seller being told by eBay that they were in the right to still expect P&H in addition to the offer price - which, in the grand scheme of things, means diddley (due to vagueness of memory and unreliability of info direct from eBay), but mentioning it none the less. 
I'm open-minded about getting a sale, but TBH if a time-limited offer came through to me and the price and other terms were acceptable, my acceptance would largely depend on how it was worded - if it was just "if you do not respond to my offer within 24 hours, I will no longer be interested", it would immediately put me off-side with the mannerism, and I'd be very unlikely to feel the person is a desirable trading partner. If the tone was friendlier and the term qualified with sound reasoning, I would be much more amenable.
