@sam22312,
Just to clarify - if an item is in your Unpaid Items, that means you have purchased it. You've not yet paid, but you have purchased - i.e., entered into a binding agreement. eBay say that ❝When a buyer bids on an item or selects Buy It Now, they're committing to paying for the item❞ and that ❝Each time you bid or select Buy It Now, you're agreeing to pay for the item.❞
As lyndal says, the item should show in your Purchase History. Your Purchase History shows Unpaid items, Orders (that is, paid items), Cancelled items, Cancelled invoices, and Returns and cancelled orders. Unpaid does not equal unpurchased. I hope that makes sense.
It's further been said that the item may have been removed by eBay. eBay do do this: they say ❝Occasionally you might not be able to find a listing on our site anymore. This could just be because someone else already bought the item, but sometimes there may have been an issue with the listing and we needed to remove it.❞ If eBay HAVE indeed removed the listing, you will probably still be able to see it in your purchase history. eBay say ❝If you've bought an item but can't find the listing on the site anymore, you should still be able to find the listing details in one of the following places:❞ and the places are purchase history and your confirmation email.
If it has been removed by eBay, and you haven't yet paid for the item, then if you go to actually pay for the item, I believe you will not be able to. Have you checked your eBay inbox to see whether there's a message from eBay about their having removed the item?
At any rate, even if you wanted to proceed with paying for the item, you would have to pay the seller's listing price, because I can't see any discount voucher or redemption code that's applicable at the moment. If there was a code available at the time of your purchase, clearly eBay have withdrawn it (as they can do under the T&Cs for these vouchers/codes).
Your seller would never have been responsible for making it up to you if the voucher didn't work or was withdrawn. The voucher is offered by eBay.
Mind you, I can understand your being peeved. The seller is doing the wrong thing by mentioning eBay vouchers or codes in any of their listings, because they (the seller) can't guarantee that the eBay voucher/code will still be available at the time of a buyer making the purchase. It is certainly misleading, and it's possible that eBay removed that phone listing for that very reason. (The seller still has other listings up with that wording of "Use code p5off". In fact, if I perform an Advanced search using those search terms, I end up with 92,121 results. That is definitely more than I expected... and extremely poor practice on the part of those sellers.)
YET - in spite of that misleading information - those sellers are not obliged to act as some sort of guarantor of eBay's voucher offer. Those sellers should not be doing what they are doing, but the consequences for them - if they are reported to eBay - would include such things as having the offending listings pulled, being given warnings, and so on. The consequences do not include being obliged to sell to buyers for the price less the amount of the eBay voucher code that they mentioned.
The seller's history shows that he's only been registered on eBay since July 2018, and has had few sales. There is a very striking negative which comments on the item purchased being a fake. The other feedback doesn't mention the items being fake - but that is sadly not unusual, even if a seller is indeed peddling fakes. That's because many Australian buyers simply don't realise that they've purchased a non-genuine item, because the fakes can often look authentic to the uninformed eye.
In at least one instance, your seller is definitely selling fakes. The "Apple Genuine Iphone XR Silicon Case Red" is as blatant a fake as one could wish to see. There ARE no Apple silicone cases for the iPhone XR! Apple announced in October that they were releasing a clear case for the XR, and that is now available. It's the ONLY Apple case available for the XR. In case you think that the clear cases are made of silicone... they're not. They are "crafted with a blend of optically clear polycarbonate and flexible TPU materials". In case you think that the seller was confused and meant to say genuine silicone cases for Apple iPhone, without intending to imply that it's a "genuine Apple" case, take a look at the seller's image for the listing, where it's clearly saying "Designed by Apple in California Made in China".
Then I took a look at the seller's "Original Apple Earpods Earphones Headphones For iPhone X 8 7 And plus". The images shown are only of the packaging, and at first glance it's quite convincing. Very convincing if one's looking at just those two photographs in the listing... but I am pretty certain that the imposture would be very obvious if seeing this package in actuality.
Even just looking at the two provided images, I was able to spot a crucial difference between this packaging and genuine packaging which made it obvious. FAKE. These are not genuine Apple Earpods. (I'm not going to explain the crucial difference here, but if you look at the image on the seller's listing, and compare it to the genuine packaging for these earpods, you'd spot it from the back.)
That's enough for me to be convinced that this is a dodgy seller. I won't hazard a guess as to the genuineness of the seller's other items; perhaps some of them are genuine, perhaps they're not. If they are, perhaps they're stolen. Some appear to be refurbished. This is not a seller with an ABN, so whence is this seller obtaining all of the iPhones and iPads and other phones and so on? Nothing about this seller convinces me of his/her probity and integrity.
I would not buy from this seller.
Were I you, I'd be contacting eBay via the Have us call you option, asking whether this item has been removed by eBay, and if given the affirmative, I'd be sinking to my knees and giving thanks that I had dodged a bullet.
