As an aside, it's only the second page if that's what your settings are.
I'm still on the first page
(edit: note to self....type faster)
@tomfrh,
You can report a seller by phoning eBay. Link is at the bottom of the Help page.
eBay have recently removed the button to report sellers for all except specific transaction-related problems. I suspect (but of course can't confirm, as I'm not an eBay employee or representative in any form) that this is due to abuse, mis-use and/or over-use of the report-seller button.
If you are determined to report the seller, phoning eBay is your only option at this point. It is not likely to result in the seller being boiled in oil, but they may be given a warning or have their nether region lightly tapped with a feather boa.
Were I in your situation, I would probably have grimaced, sighed, rolled my eyes expressively towards heaven, perhaps muttered "Well, that's another fine bargain-missing situation you've gotten [sic] me into!", and then looked for the desired item from another seller.
I wouldn't have considered my waste of time - not in the context of this world being full of traffic lights, electricity failures, late arrivals, and so on. All of us have to wait, and all of us have our time wasted, just as (do we not all hand our head in shame?) sometimes we waste the time of others.
If your point is that "the guy broke a contract and should be reported as sellers like that undermine the eBay system", I would urge you to think about the following:
- Have you ever placed a bid and then retracted it because you realised that you didn't really want the item?
- Have you ever asked a seller to cancel a purchase?
- Have you ever decided not to pay after winning an auction?
- Have you ever decided not to pay after clicking onto Buy It Now?
- Have you ever marked a seller's stars down (less than 5) for postage time when the seller posted within their handling time, because the item arrived later than you expected?
- Have you ever given fewer than 5 stars for postage cost (because the cost of postage was high) when the seller charged you roughly the cost of delivery/actual postage, associated packaging costs, and any extra such as insurance and signature on delivery?
- Have you ever given fewer than 5 stars for item description (because you didn't really like the item or find it satisfactory) when the seller's description contained the relevant information?
If so, then strictly speaking you have "undermine[d] the eBay system" and - in some of the above - broken a contract.
- Every time that a buyer retracts a bid with a specious reason, they misuse the bid retraction process.
- Every time a buyer requests a purchase cancellation, they not only break a contract but actually cost the seller money. (The seller can receive a credit (not money back) for the Final Value Fees, but they're out the actual listing fees, and they're out the PayPal fee which is not credited back to them.)
- Every time that a buyer doesn't pay, they break a contract and breach eBay policy. The seller must spend time on reporting the non-paying bidder or - for fear of a retaliatory "Yes, all right, I'll pay for this, but I'm going to report Not As Described and report you and mark down your stars and neg you and make your life hell" on the part of the buyer - simply offering a cancellation. The seller also loses the listing costs and must spend time on relisting and adjusting stock quantity.
- A seller's DSRs are now not quite as vital as they were at one time. However, giving a seller a low DSR because of events or issues outside their control is unfair and would certainly "undermine the eBay system". If a seller posts on time, but the item doesn't get to you within the Estimated Delivery Date, how is that the seller's fault? The seller neither promised a delivery by such-and-such a date, but the seller CANNOT promise such a delivery date. It is Australia Post (or a courier) who do the actual delivering. Furthermore, these deliverers are sometimes impacted by events outside their control (e.g., bushfires, COVID-19) or - as springyzone said - "stuff happens". A great many buyers punish the seller by giving fewer than 5 stars for postage time... when postage time is specifically stated by eBay to be "How quickly the seller posted the item", not "How quickly you received your item".
- Every time that a buyer gives fewer than 5 stars for postage and handling charges, just because the P&H cost was high, it's an abuse of the eBay system. The only reason for giving low stars for this would be if you as the buyer knew that the seller was charging well above the actual cost of the postage method used plus all packaging materials plus a reasonable charge for the actual packing/handling of the parcel (which involves thinking about hours @ wages) and any associated postal charges such as insurance and SOD. Simply because the postage component of the purchase was high is not a reason to mark down the seller's stars for this.
- Every time that a buyer gives fewer than 5 stars for item description, just because they were disappointed by the item, it's an abuse of the eBay system... unless the listing did not accurately describe the item. Sometimes we as buyers can build an expectation of the item, or be unreasonable in our assumption of the item... yet if we look at the actual description, it was accurate. I reserve fewer than 5 stars for item description for instances where the seller failed to include relevant descriptive information, e.g., overstated the condition, didn't include mention of marks, posted a knock-off, gave incorrect measurements, mentioned features that aren't included, etc. As another example, if I had bought a cookbook and found upon its arrival that there were fewer good recipes in it than I'd expected, that the photos were not as clear as I'd like, and that some of the pages included rambling thoughts by the chef rather than recipes, I wouldn't mark down the seller's DSR for item description unless the seller had written in the listing's description, "Has x number of recipes, and the photos are superb!", assuming that the number of recipes was less than x.
- Every time that a buyer states than an item arrived later than the EDD (Estimated Date of Delivery), but it's clear from the postmark that the item was posted within the seller's handling time, the eBay system itself is set up to punish the seller. While that may not be undermining the eBay system (if we assume that sellers are being coerced into using expensive postage methods even when the item cost doesn't justify it, and punished when they do not), that's certainly undermining fair trading and unjustly affecting sellers. Buyers do not have to answer that question - and I deplore that question as it is inherently unfair. eBay's EDDs are a fairytale based on a maybe floating in a sea of whatifness.
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@springyzone wrote:
Nah, I'm a bit basic I am afraid. Our resident expert with words is countess.
But thanks anyway.
Springy, I just noticed that countess quoted you in her latest novel post
You really have made it to the big time 
