@bl32 wrote:
I won 2 items on the German eBay site, but the seller did not specify the shipping costs and eBay/PayPal will not accept my payment unless I have an invoice from him for the total amount. Several emails by me have gone unanswered by him.
I suppose the other way around it would be to send him money through PayPal to his email address, but I don't have that either.
I don't want to get a negative or a defect but I am at a loss as to how to resolve this matter.
You don't have to worry about defects or negative FB. The seller can't leave negative FB, and there are no defects for buyers.
What the seller can do is file an UIC (unpaid item case), but then you can just pay when you see it pop up, presumably with the correct shipping amount.
Whatever you do, don't pay anything (especially not directly through Paypal) until the seller either sends you an eBay invoice, or you get notified he's opened a case. If you "guesstimate" an amount and pay without getting either an eBay invoice or UIC notice, you'll have a much stickier problem if he doesn't follow through with shipping the item(s).
I'd say you've done everything you can possibly do to this point as a buyer -- it's the seller's responsibility now. If you never hear from him at all, and never get notified of an UIC, the transaction will, I believe, just drop off the eBay system after a time (60 days, I'm not sure).
It could be the seller got less than he'd hoped for his item(s) and just doesn't want to complete the transaction -- bad business attitude, but there are such out there. It could also be he went on a vacation and forget about his listings.
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