I found a wishlist cel on ebay and bought it. I 
made arrangements to pay via money order and sent 
the money order out. Everytime I asked the lady 
if she got my money order she said no and she 
said she was waiting for it. This was going on 
since late May. I recently found the cel on 
someone else's gallery and emailed them to see 
where they got the cel from. At first they did 
not believe there was an ebay auction for it but 
when I showed her the link she told me who she 
got it from and when! She bought from the same 
seller after making an offer and paid via paypal 
June 1st. When I confronted the seller, she 
confessed that she sold the cel already and would 
be sending the money order back which 
miracoulously suddenly appeared. What was she 
trying to do, can anyone make sense of this. She 
had this cel sold since June 1st, why did she not 
tell me. Did this person offer her more than her 
ebay auction went for and if so is this right to 
lead me on considering how excited I told her I 
was about the cel? Also why did she not tell me 
right away she sold it so I can cancel the money 
order and get my money back? Any thoughts?

P.S. here is the last email I recieved from the 
lady who bought my cel:
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Hmmmm....I had no idea about this auction. I've 
just recently jumped 
back into cel collecting. I made an offer to a 
private collector after 
seeing the cel on her site shampy.rubberslug.com
days before I was looking at other private 
collector sites looking for 
a stars op cel, and she replied to sell to me. 
I've had the cel/*coming 
soon* posted on my site for almost 2 weeks.  I 
paid the seller June1st 
via paypal
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Email from seller I confronted:

 
Hi
 
It's been two weeks since the auction and I 
haven't received your payment. That's why I asked 
you if you still have your receipt so you could 
cancel the money order in case something happened 
to it. Unfortunately, do to personal reasons, I 
couldn't wait much longer and had to sell the cel 
to someone else. If your money order does happen 
to arrive I'll return it to you...but I'm 
guessing that it got lost in the mail if you sent 
it off on the 1st.
 
If it doesn't arrive maybe we can still work 
something out between us. 
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By the way the reference to asking me if I had 
the receipt was when she emailed me and told me 
that if the money order does not come, I can 
always cancel it. She never told me TO CANCEL IT.

Here is her email after I confronting her about 
the money order:

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Hi
 
I finally got your payment today, I don't know 
why it took so long to get here. It might have 
been placed in the wrong box originally.
 
I've sent it back via priority mail, along with 
some extra things.
 
I hope your next transaction goes better.

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Another explanation is that the other person made 
a bigger offer than her auction went for so 
instead of owning up to what happened she was 
going to act like the money order was lost so I 
can cancel it and once I cancelled it then claim 
she had to resell it since I cancelled it. I sent 
the m/o to the same coast and the post office 
told me it would have taken three days to get 
there. It being lost would have been more 
realistic than her getting it so late and right 
after I confronted her. Please let me know what 
you think because this cel meant alot to me.