Thank U all for your replies.

I have received 4 e-cheques over the past few months, 3 of them have bounced - 2 have paid then by Paypal without an e-cheque, one of which was quite apologetic that she'd made a mistake.

I have buyer requirememts in place - I did have a couple of buyers blocked as well, but they seemed to have dropped out at sometime.

I did write to the buyer of the miniature book, she said she'd have the money on Thursday at the latest.

That's a bit strange, as I read in a post somewhere (some weeks ago) that a buyer said that to one of the sellers on the board, when they were having trouble with someone paying.

I noticed on my sold list that this item has postage free now, but when U go into the description it definitely says there's postage extra (as it should have) - maybe another glitch?  It has only happened since the e-cheque shemozzle.