''That's hardly surprising, as payments have nothing to do with eBay.
The problem is that you haven't learned the basics of selling here.''
In their rush to admonish you the poster has failed to grasp what caused your problem. The fact is, your problem was caused by eBay.
eBay regularly amend the payments will go to email address when you place a listing, changing it to your eBay registered email. When you have a different PayPal email address to your eBay address then your payment shows as received, but pending.
In your case, you've misunderstood why it was pending because you were expecting it to be pending as eBay ask PayPal to hold payments to new or infrequent sellers.
Go to the listing in question, click relist, scroll down to payments will go to, you'll see the email address shown there isn't your PayPal email. We could have helped you claim that payment had you posted for advice earlier, however, as you were thinking it had been held under the 21 day hold policy, 30 days passed without you claiming it so the money was sent back to your buyer.
There are things you could have done to avoid this happening - none of them are really things you should reasonably have to expect to do.
The only way to get paid for that item is to ask the buyer to pay you again - if they don't, and it was a lot of money, you can try civil recovery.
To prevent it happening in future, either add your eBay registered email address to your PayPal account or check which email address is showing in the payments will go to section before submitting each listing.
This is the only site I've ever known that thinks it's okay to amend a payment address - that's an eBay problem, not a you problem, and anybody who says otherwise is being an apologist for a site that continually fixes things that aren't broken, but does nothing to fix problems they create.
ySfF8BQo+zQjKLw~~60_7.JPG "plum993"){kind=avatar}
