I'd be pretty annoyed with that seller and his reply to your feedback as he implied he was very generous replacing a lost item & it was your fault in a way, as you didn't choose to pay for tracking.
He is wrong. It's his responsibility to choose the postage cost & to provide tracking. If he doesn't, he leaves himself open to loss, but that's his worry, not the buyer's. It's part of the ebay guarantee now. If the seller can't provide tracking, you the buyer will win. Why would any buyer choose to pay extra if they don't have to?
That seller is living in the past-a decade past.
I think he scored an own goal to some extent in his replies, by the way. I had to chuckle. In one, he replied with something like "Don't buy from this seller."
It could at first glance be taken as if you wrote it about him. There was nothing in that particular line of FB that indicated you were a seller.
What i take from your experience is that if you are a seller & don't send with tracking, you'll lose sometimes, but if you do resort to answering FB, be very careful what you write as sometimes it just reflects badly back on the person who wrote it.
