I mentioned a few days back about how I had got vol 4 of About Time by mistake from eBay, but as far as I could tell it was my error. I had a funny feeling that when I bid for it, the book advertised was definitely vol 5, which is what I wanted, but when I check all the email records and images on eBay it was definitely vol 4 that appeared. I reckoned it was unlikely that the seller had sneakily sent me the wrong book, and then changed the images on display on the web page to cover their mistake, so my own error was a more likely explanation.

But I just got an email from eBay, saying “Our records show that you were a bidder or buyer of one or more items from the seller, [***]. We recently removed this seller’s active listings and suspended the seller’s trading privileges.” It suddenly seems more likely that I was deliberately sent the wrong book.

I shall file a complaint, not that it is likely to do any good.