Civ Duel Zone - A transfer affair

My player Duriez was on the transfer market, with a deadline yesterday at 15.38 h Amsterdam time.

As I do more often he was for sale for 1000 euro, because I have bad experiences with minimum transfer prices (this looks like a psychologically difficult step to make for most). After what happened yesterday I’m going to think twice about this…

Duriez was 18 y and 89 d young and had brilliant defending and passable passing. TC had 4 similar players. One was 2.8M, one was 3,5M and two were more than 4M.

At 13h I noticed that HT was down. Knowing that my player was for sale this worried me a little, because there would be less time to bid on him. At 15.09h I managed to access HT again, while just before the site said it would take until 16h.

Thinking that only a few people would log on I decided to participate in the bidding to ensure that the player would sell for at least 2.5M. I’d rather have my player back with a little loss on transfer costs than with a huge value loss due to the downtime that occurred. Ten minutes before the deadline someone bid 2.52M. While still far under 2.8M I decided to stop there. No-one overbid this and at 15.38 the bidding was finished.

It took longer than normal for this sale to appear as my revenue, but before that occurred I got this mail:

“Very unsportsmanlike to bid on your own player.

In other words, I have overpaid 99,000 for this player and want that money back.

Two options for you:
1: Pay the money back through bidding on a player of mine: (worth zero - all skills weak, expect for passable passing; Aggie)
2: I report it to hattrick.

Please be more sportsmanlike in the future”.

My response was:

“You just had a bargain.

As you know we just came from a downtime. I had hoped that the transfer time would be extended by a few hours, but to my great disappointment that did not happen. I did not want to squander my expensive players. Therefore I needed to prevent an outrageous price.

As you could have seen in transfer compare the cheapest comparable players were 2.8 M and 3.5 M and others were worth more. So I am quite unhappy with the price of Duriez.

I think you use really big words here. If you want to go to the HT GM’s I will give my response to the Hattrick GM's.”

But before I could send my mail he already reported me to HT, so he told me. And again used big words in new mails.

Luckily the transfer deadline was extended by 360 minutes and I sold the player for 3.35M. 850K more than it was before.

Knowing the HT rules I am fully allowed to bid on my own players, so I have no worries there. But HE tried to persuade me to do something really illegal (bidding big sum on a worthless player). So I’m thinking about reporting HIM. What do you guys think?