Due to a tight year financially and money being short I decided to list my camera on eBay so that I had money to use towards Christmas. The camera sold on 27th November, it was sent straight away and when the buyer received it he was happy with the purchase. eBay decided to hold on to the funds until 11th December, reportedly as a "precautionary measure", which was not too much of a problem as once they were available this still left a couple of weeks until Christmas. However the 11th December came and went with no funds being transferred. I checked again and now eBay are saying that the funds are not going to be released until 28th December. This is despite me having a 100% positive record on eBay and no problems on either side of a transaction. So much for a Merry Christmas in our family. They just seem to do it because they can and stuff the users. So much for loyalty and maintaining a good record being important and rewarded.