Yeah, I can understand a lot of what you say. I try to take what certain others have to say with a grain of salt. It's a shame when people allow themselves to be influenced by unfounded libellous remarks - if that is indeed the case here. It will be impossible to know for sure if people were turned off by the scam accusations. My main beef with the situation was the change of terms after bids were already made.
Thanks for being so understanding. To be honest I feel the same way as you, I never wanted to have to take that action but I can't even get hold of Mods for that forum- over a week of begging for one to come to my aid and totally ignored- so I don't have any way to fix it. If there was a way, for instance, to have deleted posts or have a mod clean up the auction then I would have had a lot more confidence in doing something like that.
I also had concerns that the people who were shouting the most 'scam' and trying to put people off buying the property were also the people who claimed to have the most interest in the property. So there is also a worry that said persons may have tried to put off other buyers to keep the price low. How can I tell? trust no one, is supposed to be the Forum motto......
In any case let's see where this goes and how it ends up. I really really want to see a positive result from this.