Hi cjbeeza , it is good that you have brought this subject up even though you have possibly adressed it to the ebay admin. The good thing is it reminds others and maybe thet can contact eBay to get something done about it.
I have been in this situation a small number of times. One involved a mobile phone which I discovered was coming from some other country even though the seller was located in China. Actually I thought the seller was in a western country but he was in Hong Kong and the item was coming from a third location. Anyway, I got the item and the seller gave good contact thoughout.
The other seller was selling a DVD box set that I purchased for one rare obscure movie. The seller was in an East Euro country and the item came from another. It took months and I got a PayPal refund. Then the seller was kicked off eBay. Eventually the item arrived. The film that I was after was almost unwatchable. It was dubbed off of a Greek video tape, then enlarged so that the Greek Subtitles were obsured then trimmed via some computer process to make it look like cinemascope. The result, a blurry movie with part of the sop and bottom cut off and in close ups the heads of the actors were chopped off. So there would have been no come back on this one.
I hope your further trading experiences will be good from now on. Cheers.
