I'm a bit baffled by ebay's attitude to offers to sellers. The process used to be that if you made an offer you were committing to buy and if the seller accepted the offer the item sold and the buyer just had to sort payment. Now accepted offers go into some sort of limbo where the buyer's offer turns into a seller offer until the item is paid for and it is otherwise still available to buy. Who thought that was a good idea? Maybe it is to cut down on non-payers but it seems an odd way to go about it.