---

@willpetewaitara wrote:

Forget some of the "eBay forum experts" who seem to have diverted your answering your original question to a squabble about postage times. Some of them just dribble **bleep** all day on these forums.

 

Just go straight to Paypal and file a claim for a suspected fraudulent transaction and demand a refund. 

 

I had a similar thing occur and Paypal froze the transaction immediately. Once the Seller is aware Paypals frozen the money, generally speaking you'll get it back asap.

 

Other thing make sure you leave the Seller a big fat NEGATIVE

---

Extremely poor advice. >_<

If you bothered to read my post properly, I asked some clarifying questions (as yet unanswered) to help determine the most applicable advice, but followed it up by acknowledging that if there was not any holiday notices on the listing advising of delays to order processing, then the seller is obliged to post within their stated handling time.

If there was holiday notices, then it's an entirely different situation. A buyer not seeing or reading a holiday notice doesn't suddenly mean they can expect their purchases to be posted immediately or that the seller is a fraud.