Ebay's new payment rules are simple:
You will be paid 48 hours after tracking shows delivery. Items can be shown as delivered; they don't show as 'received' and feedback does not count as proof of delivery (but see below)
No tracking, or tracking not updated, you will be paid 14 days after the transaction date
Before the end of February, for items costing under £10, payment will be released 24 hours after you receive positive feedback.
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)