This week after communicating with a seller I made & seller accepted a counter offer. Seller thinks item is sold having accepted, I think it’s bought awaiting payment - but NO! The item now remains for sale until the buyer pays for it.

Question – Does eBay think buyers should be / can be watching 24/7 once they make a counter offer on the off chance it’s accepted?

I appreciate buyers / sellers can lose out when not seeing an offer / counter, fair enough, but this is a different matter considering the offer is agreed.