From the auction:
For every 1K under 25K on the final sales price will cause a delay in shipping by one week. Please do not bid if you have a problem with this!
Creative, but really?
I'm not sure you can actually do that and not violate EBAY ToS...
Yeah, really! ebay charges a fortune for "reserve". If they give me any problems then I say good by to ebay for good.
If you're willing to do that aren't you just as willing to screw over the buyer? You have already said several things that would keep me from ever buying it from you.
I see your point; just don't buy. screwing over a buyer vs. leaving ebay for being inflexible on their TOS that I don't even know what it says is not the same in my view. But to each his own. I've been on the edge of never selling on ebay again and I have a perfect rating. If they [ebay] give me problems, it won't be a problem for the buyer. I'll just move over to bitmit where i also have a good rating.
Like I said in the listing, if you don't like how it is then just don't bid. Pretty simple really.