Do you accept credit card payments for your eBay items? If so, the buyer may have indicated during checkout that they wanted to pay by credit card for the item, but for some reason (most likely confusion) have not actually sent payment. If this is the case, then eBay will have marked it as paid whether or not you have actually received any $$. Another reason could be that the buyer is in the process of setting up a Paypal account to pay for the items, but they've run into problems or delays getting funds into their account, or figuring it out. Or they could just be flakes who have changed their mind or not understood that they won/bought an item. 🙂 Have you tried contacting the buyers? Send a friendly message both through eBay messages and to the buyer's email address asking if they have any questions about completing payment or if they have had any difficulty establishing a Paypal account, etc. Hopefully they will respond.
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