I see you have visitied the thread I started over on the buyer's forum. I think that explains my actions.

I admit that I've had very little experience on this site, and don't generally know how things work around here. That's why I came to these forums.

According to ebay's policies, I am supposed to begin by contacting the seller and seeing if we can't work things out between ourselves before taking any further action. See:

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/buy/item-not-received.html#talk

So that's what I'm now doing.