Seller getting cold feet after purchase?
I bought a sort-of pricey guitar last week, seller accepted my offer for 20% off. It'd been on the site for a couple months with a few other rejected offers. Free shipping, which helped me pull the trigger. Paid and waited for my tracking number.
After a couple days of radio silence the seller gets back to me and says shipping services want "hundreds of dollars" to send the guitar and he's going to have to look into other options to get it to me-- and offered a refund if I didn't want to wait.
Both myself and the seller are in the continental US and it's a pretty standard sized electric guitar so it should be nothing out of the ordinary.
Does this sound weird? I know prices have gone up across the board on stuff, fuel costs, etc. but it sounds excessive. The seller has good feedback from sales so I think he should know approximately what it will cost to send a guitar out. I'm starting to think he's regretting the sale for whatever reason and just hoping I cancel. Anyone deal something like this before?
UPDATE: I got a refund.