So for the 3rd time in a month, it appears that I've won an auction only to have the seller back out. Paid via paypal and the sellers somehow declined receipt of that payment. No email response, nothing. It resulted in ebay/paypal sending ME emails to pay for the auction (since it was declined) and a non-paying bidder strike against me.

I assume they don't like the final selling price they got for the items. The first one was actually a "Buy it now" that was later relisted by the seller at 3 times the price they sold it to me for. I was able to leave him bad feedback which I assume I will be doing in the next case...

Is this the new trend? Anyone else had this happen lately?