Contact ePray/Payscumpal, but I think I know already what they're going to say. Probably encourage you to pay the seller, since they generally default to either their side or the seller's in any transaction.
I'd advise to just pretend you never bid, leave it at that. The seller does have the option to neg you, but so do you against him. I think most sellers wont do that on their own without "feedback provocation". He might stand to lose more than you with another red mark on his record. Even if he does, you neg him worse, and then you offer to "mutually withdraw feedback". Then, unless he's a pure nutcase, he may agree to a mutual cleansing of the record. That means you get some bad remarks (feedback stains) but no red marks and maintain the 100% percent rating.
I'm currently in a similar situation with a Chinese seller on a pair of Sennheiser PX100 headphones. He decides to tell me only after the auction he's charging an obligatory 3GBP insurance charge (he probably won't even insure the damn thing). I can either ignore him and buy the cans from someone else, or curse his name and pay for it. If I bail on him, I risk spotting my 100% feedback record, which I took years to build. But he's got a 100% pos record too, and I can mess his up, and I'm not a seller so I dont need to rely on good feedback.
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