Compromised Seller account on Ebay

[medradusa]

Hello,

On a recent purchase on ebay, I received the following message from ebay (view below). The payment was made to the seller and shows pending on my paypal account for a number of days now.  I have attempted to contact the seller with no response.  Ebay  indicates paypal will not allow a case to be opened at this time.  When I attempt to open a dispute in my paypal account, paypal indicates that I can not open a dispute at this time probably due to the pending status of the payment to the seller.

My question: How long before paypal refunds my money if the seller never accepts payment? Am I going to have to call paypal directly?

Just not sre what to do.........

Thank You,  Craig

Your recent eBay transaction may be from a compromised account

Hello medradusa,

You were recently involved in a transaction for the following item:  
 

We’re writing to let you know that an unauthorized third party may have accessed the seller’s account to list this item. The item has been removed from the site, and the transaction was cancelled. We ask that you take the following precautions:

- If you already paid for the item, you may be protected by eBay. Open a request with the Resolution Center and choose, "I bought an item. I haven't received it yet." You can access the Resolution Center by visiting:
   http://resolutioncenter.ebay.com 

- If the transaction doesn't qualify for eBay’s protection, please immediately contact the payment service used to request a refund.

- If you haven't paid for your item, consider this transaction canceled and do not send payment.

In this situation, your account wasn't accessed by the third party involved. At eBay, we take a number of steps to help ensure the security of your account. Learn more about protecting your account at:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/protecting.html

Thanks,

eBay

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eBay Document ID: 48429329003