I had winning bid on a new extra large capacity fuel tank for my dual sport bike, then paid for it. It did not ship & then finally I receive an email from the fiance of the seller explaining that he had died in a car wreck, & she was attempting to settle all of his ebay sales, but did not have access to his PayPal account. I did a search on their local newspaper & sure enough I found the obituary. Damn. I sent link to the ebay dispute & explained what had happened- about 3 weeks later the fuel tank arrived!!

Not an ebay burn, but a weird turn of events.