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My ebay story -

I attempted to buy something on ebay using the "buy it now" price. However, my Paypal account was inactive, and I couldn't figure out why. So I sent an email to the seller cancelling my purchase since I had no easy way to pay for it.

Later, I re-activated my Paypal account (the problem turned out to be that the credit card registered with the account had reached its expiration date; reactivation only required entering the new expiration date) and purchased a better, but similar item from another ebay vendor at a better price. That transaction proceded without a problem - I received my goods in a few days, and my credit card account was billed accordingly.

Then I started getting emails from the original vendor and from ebay concerning the original transaction. These seem to be generated automatically since it does not appear anyone is actually reading my responses to them. I have been threatened with some sort of bad ebay creputationk (or perhaps a curse of eternal damnation, it is not clear from the messages I have received). In the meantime, I have made other purchases from ebay using my repaired paypal account without question. I believe the vendors get payment through the paypal system and ship the purchase without paying any attention to whatever record may exist of my earlier failed attempt.