You qualify as a near scumbag and low life (as do I and many others I could name).

Obviously you loose control of your property once put on ebay.

Btw the way, you are lucky the emailer didn't offer $20. Then, had you sold it immediately, you would have screwed ebay out of a quarter or so and would have been considered a full fledged scumbag and an even lower life.

BTW, it is quite acceptable to sell that same $10 chip for $100 or so to a newable. For then you are covered by caveat emptor!. Obviously it would be the newbie's fault for not doing his homework. And, if during the transaction you mischaracterized the chip with such words as: Rare!!, WOW!!!, MUST HAVE!!!, NEAR MINT!!!, don't worry. Such inaccurate and misleading words are simply chalked up as dealer puffery. Yeah, just about anything goes, except of course, stopping an ebay auction before it's end.

Actually I think stopping an auction should be grounds for expulsion from the club. Afterall do we really want scumbags in our club?

The following is said with tongue withdrawn from cheek.

All kidding aside. I've had auctions stopped on me that I was bidding on. It is frustrating. However, it's no big friggin deal. It is the sellers chip. If he stopped the auction to sell the chip off-line, or keep the chip in his collect or even shove it up his ass, it is his chip to do with as he wishes. We have bigger problems then whether an ebay auction runs to maturity.

Personally, what happened to Mike Christensen (see above) bothers me more. But then again, what do I know.