First, a tax was added to an eBay item, after I clicked on Buy It Now. I have decided not to dispute this, though there is no record of who the tax was paid to, nor can I confirm payment. The item comes from outside my country, and the seller is in a third country. After placing the order, the seller said they still had to order the item - I though they had to have it on hand. The seller refused to acknowledge payment, through Paypal, and kept asking me to pay again, until I opened a Paypal dispute. I tried to contact eBay too, but eBay no longer has a way to contact them, unless you want a return or to cancel an order. Then they provided no tracking number, though they said it had been shipped. Another dispute was opened, and the seller provided a tracking number, and Paypal gave the seller a certain number of days to provide one, and they were too late, so I was given a refund. The seller said they had shipped the order, and angrily indicated that I owed them the money. I said that, I would send them the money after I verified the item was good - because if I resend them the money, Paypal says I have no recourse if there is a problem. Paypal actually claims I don't have to send them money after a refund, but I want to do the right thing. A package arrived, containing an item that might be right, but with the wrong tracking number. I am on travel now, but my landlord opened it, and says based on the inner box, it might be right. Am I right to withold payment until I return home after a few weeks?
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