IIRC, you can cancel your auction at any time. However, what the
seller did was against Yahoo! auction rules, which state:
Manipulative bidding. Neither buyers or sellers, or any party acting on
their behalf, may engage in manipulative bidding practices, including
sellers bidding on their own auctions or bidders "bidding up" the
highest bid in an auction so as to make other bidders retract their
offers.
This is on http://user.auctions.yahoo.com/html/guidelines.html.
You can and should report them to Yahoo! auctions, however they will
probably only get a slap on the wrist "don't do that again!" and be
allowed to continue, or at worst their Yahoo! auction priveledges will
be revoked. If he wanted at least $3,000 he should have set a reserve
price, which he didn't.
I complained to Yahoo! (see the bottom of the URL above), and we can
encourage people to let that Roadster rot, although getting it out of
the hands of that owner is probably a good idea (Roadster owner
integrity and all).
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