Bloody people!!

[don simon]

I have a couple of Ebay auctions on the go at the moment, all on collection only.
Woke up this morning to a message stating that one item had sold at the BIN price.
It all then started to look a bit dodgy. The bid itself came from a real account with good feedback, but they were in the States. Not looking good for a collection only auction.
The correspondence looked a bit iffy, one email from Ebay looked fine but the email from the buyer didn't go through the usual routes and didn't appear in my Ebay messages.
The delivery address looked a bit iffy too.
Sure enough I get the email from Ebay stating that it was an erroneous bid and was now being withdrawn while Ebay investigate.

What do the perpetrators hope to gain? Apart from time wasting and peeing people off.