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@dylan11235813 wrote:

I agree with you in the most part but in effect the seller could have lied a little better and ebay would have been non the wiser. I would prefer an honest seller who is out of stock than a dishonest one that will drag a transaction on for a month.

 

The seller could have lied and still have an account (no sting).

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A lot of buyers would have been a bit disgruntled but would have told him they were happy to wait, simply because there wasn't much point carrying on about it.  While they said they were happy to wait, how many of them gave him a low score that caused a defect?  I'd suggest a lot of them would have given a low score for postage time, which would have earned him enough defects to have his account cancelled.

How could he have "lied a little better" to avoid receiving low DSRs/defects?  If he'd told them he was sick or said nothing at all and just posted a week later, no doubt he would have still copped a lot of low DSRs, and therefore defects.  The only way he could have avoided the defects was only to list what he had in stock. 

If you look at his feedback this is not a one-off incident.  He's a serial offender.  He even admits in earlier posts that he listed quantities of 100 for a lot of listings even though he didn't have that many.