I had a read of the ad and to me, it came across as a very aggressive seller and it set my back up a bit.

Sale requirements below! Must read! Refunds will not be given if you choose to trust Australia post Standard service! THIS MEANS NO PAYPAL CLAIMS! This description can not be modified once sale is complete so If you are only reading this now after your item got lost. Bad Luck!

I'm sorry, but if I bought and paid for an item and it did not turn up, I would be putting in an item not received claim to paypal and I presume that unless he could show some evidence that it had in fact been delivered, I would get a refund. I can't see that his advice to contact Aust post (further down in his ad) would or could work. He might hope to bluff buyers but the truth is he has absolutely no right to say a person cannot open a paypal claim if they have a case. What he is doing there is trying to impose his own conditions on how paypal works and that is not on.

I get the sense this seller may have been stung in the past by what he saw as an unreasonable claim but ranting and raving in an ad won't fix that, he needs to up his postage so he covers himself.

Sure, it may make it harder to get a sale, but he has to weigh that up against the risk.

Once upon a time on ebay, the seller could decide whether to give refunds or not, but these days with paypal, he isn't in charge. That is the bottom line. Ebay has its own set of rules and any buyer whose item does not arrive is probably likely yo open a dispute, whether he likes it or not.