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All you can do is make sure you give some bad feed back quick before he has a chance to make a good excuse. I won a sign fair and square for $150 and I talked with the seller on the phone and he told me it was worth more and I was not getting it .nothing you can do but call them out and don't let up.Remember you entered into a contract for the item make sure they don't try to fault you.

Go to the ebay site map and find the area for contact info. It will ask for the number of the item you are buying and they will email his contact info to you and also email your contact info to him.
You can then give him a call and if he has no intention of selling it to you--then forget about it as the others have said. There have been situations where someone ended up sick or stranded, or their computer quit--right before the auction ended.
Whatever the case, you'll find out by contacting them! Good luck!

K W is right ,I did not mean to sound harsh but just make every effort to contact in case there is a problem on their end that is out of their control.

...use Kevin's info to try to call them - I'm guessing they are away from the computer for the holidays...if you don't get a response, or the response is something like 'it's worth more than that', then let them have it with negative feedback...

...IF there was no reserve, and IF the auction ran its course, then 'I forgot to add a reserve', or 'it's worth more than that', is no excuse...he won the auction fair and square - seller's remorse isn't an acceptable excuse either...whatever the Buy It Now price happened to be, is immaterial...

...for all of the people who want to give the seller the benefit of the doubt: for every 'honest mistake', there are many many more who will do or say anything, to avoid honoring their end of the bargain...

...an eBay auction is an auction...the rules are explained beforehand...if you decide not to use a reserve, then 'you rolls your dice and you takes your chances'...if the seller had listed his pump with an auction house, he would not have the luxury of deciding to keep it after the hammer went down...

Mark, can't disagree with anything you say. However, at the end of the day...possession is 9/10ths of the law.

I agree with all of the above. But ebay, unless the rules have changed, will not be of any help. I had a similar situation years back and ebay told me that they cannot make a seller send an item. Contract or not you have little to no recourse. Negative feedback is about it. Sorry to hear of your loss....frustrating.

Mark, What you said was correct. My thought is to pick the battles that you have a chance to win. Don't think there is a chance of that happening here? Paul www.severngaspumps.com