The 45 day limit is way to short in case of preorders: I pre-ordered an item in July and it came out in November. When I hadn't received any shipment by December, I tried to communicate with the seller via mail: no response at all of course, because the 45 day window had passed so I couldn't file a dispute or claim via PayPal. All PayPal do, is say that they can't open a dispute (of course they can, but they won't for some shady reason) and then encourage me to contact the seller (as if I hadn't tried that several times before). I suppose the only action that I can still take, is to contact my creditcard company and see if they can cancel the transaction.
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