A German court has ordered a British pensioner, who cancelled the sale of vintage tape recorder on eBay after noticing it was damaged, to pay £11,600 to the winning bidder.
Mike Godden, sabloncepat 72, put an advertisement up for sablonbaju the 1970s recorder on the American auction site, allowing bids starting from 99p. 
The Studer A80 tape recorder is the same make as the one used by Pink Floyd for their iconic 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.
The device proved to be very popular among bidders and offers rose to £1,380. 
But Mr Godden, a retired music studio manager, sablondigital cancelled the auction after noticing the recorder was damaged - eight days before the end of the sale.
Mike Godden, 72, has been forced to pay £11,600 to the winning bidder of his eBay auction to sell his Studer A80 tape recorder (pictured)
Mr Godden's Studer A80 tape recorder is the same make as the one used by Pink Floyd for their iconic 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon
The winning bidder, a man from Germany, insisted however that the device was rightfully his and sent messages demanding to be sent the parcel. 
Initially Mr Godden ignored the man, but the bidder took the case to court in Germany.
Although the seller had followed eBay's rules correctly, which states a sale can be cancelled up to 12 hours before closing, the court ruled that EU law overrode the site's procedures, and sablonbaju sent him a bill of £11,600.
Mr Godden joined online to be present at the hearing taking place at a regional court in Frankfurt.
The court ruled that the eBay bid was binding under the Rome I Regulation, a contract law operating in the EU and retained by the UK after Brexit, adding :'Both parties had made binding declarations of intention at the time the auction was aborted.'
Mr Godden was ordered to pay £7,551 to cover the costs of an equivalent tape recorder and £4,049 for kaossablon legal fees after the court found he had created a contract with the German buyer
Mr Godden joined online to be present at the hearing taking place at a regional court in Frankfurt after the German buyer escalated proceedings (file image)
He was ordered to pay £7,551 to cover the cost of an equivalent tape recorder and a further £4,049 for the buyer's legal fees and bailiff costs. 
He said that bailiffs even paid him and his wife a visit at their home in Southampton, adding: 'It's just crazy.

This should have never gone to court,' he said according to . 
Mr Godden, who has paid the would-be buyer, is now calling for eBay to reimburse him and said that he 'had not done anything wrong'.
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