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Package arrived today - still no contact from the seller, mind you; it would have killed him to respond to my e-mail or to call and say "I shipped it on Monday"?  (Postmark 10/8.)  resonant8 asked if I was sure the payment was delivered, but I have no idea how to find that out.  I see from my PayPal that my card was charged on 9/27 and, in a related transaction, the payment to the seller was completed on 9/27.  Does that mean he got the money on ... 9/27?  Which was a Thursday.  So allowing two business days, he should have shipped the thing on 10/1, and was therefore off his auction's promise by a week.  Add the total lack of communication and you have a buyer who is all the way to disgruntled;

[it is now Thursday:  Okay, I was sure I had posted the above last night.  For "today" in the above paragraph, read "Wednesday 10/10".  Turns out I just began writing it last night, and then got distracted by ... I don't even know what.  Feedback, probably.  The end of the story is, I left neutral feedback, saying I was very satisfied with the condition of the item as described but not satisfied or unsatisfied with the seller's shipping (he charged $9 for shipping but the postmark says $7.50; but I suppose the box and packing materials may have set him back another buck and a half) and very unsatisfied with his communication - and used my 80 characters to clarify that there was no communication at all and a week between when he should have shipped and when he did.]

[eta:  And the little shit left me negative feedback!  Sure, that he can get off his ass and do in a hurry.  Ah well.  He says "received item in 7 days and left bad feedback"; I say "promised to ship 2 days after pmt. shipped 10 days after pmt. i left NEUTRAL fb." Anyone who cares to can check into it, but I use eBay so infrequently that it hardly matters.]