Yes, I have got my money back, but I really don't see the relevance.
It is tremendously relevant. If there was some kind of mistake in the listing, then the seller just might have a right to get the domain back. This reminds me of a person who called me yesterday. His girlfriend saw 52" plasma televisions for sale online for FOUR DOLLARS! Woo hoo, she bought four of them. When it turned out that they were mis-priced, they cancelled the order. She wanted to sue.
Naturally, this is a bit more extreme than your story. But, lets just chill the hell out with your rhetorical use of terms like "steal," and "corruption." You might have been aggrieved, but your outrage is a little over the top.
The cost of the domain is one thing, but what about my time researching the domain the inconvenience of them having over $2k of mine for nearly two weeks, the fact I had the domain listed for sale on my site- what if it had sold already? What sort of a mess would this be then.
Lets presume that there was a mistake, and thus the seller had some right to take the domain back. (And I don't necessarily agree that there was).
Your time researching the domain might entitle you to some compensation for your trouble. Of course, you would need to quantify that and whoever made the error ought to compensate you for it. However, if all you did was an hour of web surfing and an hour of math, I'd imagine you're not looking at any more compensation than it would take to go to the movies with a date. The inconvenience of having your money for two weeks? Again, we're not talking about rivers of tears here -- but theoretically, there might be some lost interest. You may be entitled to about $16.
Had it been resold already, well that didn't happen, did it? Nevertheless, lets ponder what that would mean. The new purchaser would have been an innocent party who purchased for a fair market value from a willing seller. We couldn't very well penalize him, nor penalize you. In that circumstance, the status quo would have been the most just result.
It is a disgusting, corrupt practice that you would not get anywhere else, as it is only possible because snapnames and moniker are part of the same company, oversee.net.
Not necessarily. It would be more "disgusting" if an innocent seller merely made an error and some blowhard thinks "finders keepers" is how the world ought to work. There's nothing "corrupt" about it unless there is some kind of a bribe or inside job taking place (which there might be, in which case I would agree with you that it is both disgusting and corrupt).
The issue is how do they think they have authority to take names from my account which I purchased through their system, legally and fairly according to their own auction terms?
Yes, this is a key issue. Have you fully reviewed the terms and conditions on the websites of all the relevant companies and sub-companies? Perhaps this is authorized there? (Or perhaps it is prohibited, thus strengthening your argument).
You may be right, you may be wrong, but I'm weighing this as a 35% chance that you're right and a 99% chance that you ought to take a valium.