lol its kinda of like quoting the removal of negative feedback for sellers without putting the fineprint Davewil

The actual policy detail also states the following:

Offers to buy or sell listed items outside of the eBay site are not permitted. Offers of this nature are a potential fraud risk for both buyers and sellers and circumvent eBay's fees. If you receive any spam (unsolicited commercial messages) through email or Skype that includes offers to buy or sell outside eBay, please report this using the appropriate link in the "Additional Information" section below.

Some examples of offers outside of the eBay site include:

• Using member contact information obtained from eBay or using any eBay system to offer to sell any listed item outside of eBay

• Canceling a listing to sell to a buyer who became aware of the item through eBay

• Ending a listing early to sell the item at a higher price to the winning bidder

• Offering to sell an item to a bidder in a Reserve Not Met listing without going through Second Chance Offer

• Offering to sell duplicate or additional merchandise to under-bidders without going through Second Chance Offer

• Sending unsolicited (without prior permission) commercial email offers to bidders for the same or similar products that they have bid on in the past

Also note that the policy outlines the following - that could only be the result of the buyer or seller proposing "an offer"

It is acceptable for sellers to end a listing early in order to sell an item at the current bid price to the high bidder. Bidders are permitted to contact sellers with requests to end a listing early and sell at the current bid price; however, sellers are under no obligation to honour the request.

Interesting paradigm presented in some posts .... lol