With the topic of eBay, and how legaly binding it all is, coming up often this seemed interesting.
Basically a seller cancelled an auction as he found a buyer for his car outside of eBay.
However the court decided that he had to pay the bidder, who bid 1 Euro, for the value of the whole car, he di not get.
Google translation
This has thus claim for damages against the seller for the aborted auction.
The owner of a VW Passat had suddenly no longer want to auction his car during the already ongoing auction. He had set a minimum bid of one euro for the vehicle. But a few hours later he was otherwise the car for 4200 Euros and sell withdrew its Internet offer then. By the time someone had already provided a € on the car at the auction - the highest bidder until then.
The bidder would now pay compensation amounting to the value of the car, which is estimated at 5250 euros. The Thuringian Higher Regional Court in Jena was right given to him: he had purchased the car effective for a euro, it said. This judgment was confirmed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, initially without giving reasons
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