You're hardly blameless in all this,

You are right. I fully admit posting here on the groups.

However, it's a hard pill to swallow to have fellow hobbyists hurt you
in this way, when I meant no harm to anyone.

Over the years many hobbyists have benefiited from the equipment I've
sold. No one is getting rich.

I think if we are going to clean up the newsgroups, then Let's do it for
all, not just one because someone got their panties twisted seeing an
item bid up for more then it should have. That's just not fair.

but I do agree with you on one
point... eBay should provide a legitimate reason each and every time it
ends an auction.

They should, but for some reason in this case, they have not.

If and when I ever get a response, I will post it here. But I suspect
it is as I said, someone on these groups did me in.

So much for the amateur radio fraternity.

Dan