As some of you might know, I just won an eBay auction. A Tamron 200-500/6,9.
When trying to pay the invoice by PayPal, something odd happenes. I am directed to a "Transaction Cancelled" page telling me "This seller cannot currently receive payments." When noting the seller, I get a message in rather broken english telling me "what happened is that im sign with ebay so you have to pay ebay. I had little problem wint pay pal". I retry paying via the PayPal link in the invoice. Same result. After a bit back and forth, the seller sends this message " im the guy from ebay i've sent ebay a message about the payment problem and they will send you or me a message telling us about whats going on ok." Waiting for a mail from eBay does not sound like a speedy solution. Is it likely it will solve anything at all? The seller is in US, and responds very slowly on mails. It is now a week since auction closed. What do I do? Forget the whole thing, and spend the 160$ on women and booze? Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy)
