One method of paying on Paypal is via an e-check.  If you somehow checked that box, you could have paid with your credit card with an e-check.  In that case, it takes a few days to clear.  That is the only explanation I can come up with. 

Credit card purchases through PayPal go through immediately. It only takes a few minutes for these to show up in your PayPal account, not days. They don't take days to clear. If I paid you right now through PayPal with a credit card, you would get an email verifying that payment within minutes.

You should have received an email from PayPal when you made the payment, verifying it. It comes with the subject line "Receipt for Your Payment to _________ ."  So you would know when it cleared.

Unless you did something wrong, like was mentioned with the e-check, I'd say your seller is lying. Not unusual for eBay, unfortunately.

surrender...when did you purchase the item?

Are you telling me that you still haven't received it? Did you get an email from eBay notifying you that it was shipped? You wouldn't necessarily unless the seller set their account to send that email automatically.

Of course the seller left positive feedback...you paid immediately. Don't let that deter you from honestly evaluating the transaction. That's important for the way eBay works.

I emailed the seller again to ask why my payment did not go through until the following week. The response was that "After you pay then the seller has to transfer the payment into their account to deposit the money. It doesn't go automatically into the sellers account." It was offered that if I had any more questions I could feel free to email them. Then, "Please don't forget to leave feedback. Thank you."

Does that sound like a reasonable explanation? I'm new at this so bear with me if my questions seem remedial.

I checked my PayPal account and the payment to the seller went through the same day it was put through on my credit card which was immediately after the close of the auction. There was no mention of an eCheck. The payment was done from my credit card and done the same way as the three other previous transactions which I had received in 2 business days. It looks like the seller did not get the item in the mail when the payment was received. It didn't get into the mail until 3 or 4 business day passed, thus it took over a week and a half to get the item. I was starting to worry I would not receive it. Although this is not the worst thing I would have preferred she had just been honest and said she was a little late getting it in the mail. I don't know if I should just leave neutral feedback with an explanation or just leave positive but explain it took a little longer than I expected. This seller had almost all good feedback.

 

Thank you so much for all your help. As I said I am new to eBay so it means a lot.

Yes...I'd love to know how this ended. Did you mention her antics in your feedback?