You have not taken LEGAL DELIVERY of it... you have taken LEGAL RECEIPT of it.   * If you don't take delivery of the item how can you take receipt of it? I think you'll find that both words have similar related meanings when I delivery the item into your hands and you accept receipt of it lol.   Nothing was actually delivered. It did not leave the shop and delivered to another destination. It was received within the shop and then removed by the purchaser. THIS IS NOT DELIVERY! (since you like to be technical about the use of words!)   I realise you have a learned friend... but even they can misinterpret the english language.   * I'm confident they know exactly what is the accepted terminologies are, but choose to either twist them around to suit themselves, or take them totally literally. It's exactly what they are there and being paid for lol.   And with all due respect, the context of the term COD is within the EBAY selling policies, and i bet the legals working for ebay far outweigh the credentials for your lawyer friend. 🙂   * I would tend to believe they're about the same level, but sometimes I have to wonder about the Ebay/Paypal legal bods when I read of a court action case won against them over what started out as something that they could have settled on quietly without the need to take things so far.   Its the molehill we are discussing  here... not the mountain you have brought into this topic.   * And that's your interpretaion of things! Mine, and other silent Ebay messageboard members who talk together off board regularly, is a little different when we all see the same small group of people like yourself who are prepared to argue that black is white against any other member outside your little niche just for the sake of it. At least you give the rest of us something to laugh at when you do it, and I love prodding you all into it because I know for sure you'll all always take the bait. Please keep it up lol.