Thank you--I am making some progress and an eBay employee did reply to my concerns and was very nice-which I appreciated very much! I was told that there is some type of technical glitch or glitches that both eBay and PayPal are surely aware of and are working on. It is disheartening to read from different threads and even this one some of the conspiracy etc ideas which I don't think are happening at all-nor do I understand why that make sense at all. I was also told that most users/buyers are not experiencing these problems but many are, but again they are being addressed.
So I guess I will have to be patient here and in my opinion this is not the worst thing in the world-frustrating to both potential buyers and of course sellers, of course. But just hearing from one or two representatives goes a long way and that they have assured me that both eBay and PayPal are aware of this/these issues is certainly re-assuring. I do not see why they wouldn't be doing as much work as they could to fix this as loss of revenue from completed transactions I'm confident is at the top or very very close to the top of importance.
In reality while this has cost it sounds like many people lots of sales, I can't imagine how much this is costing eBay in lost revenue + the number of users who will just abort the site due to difficulties. I don't expect perfection and in reality little {hopefully} bumps like this tend not to ruin the whole road etc
To answer a couple questions-no they were not promoted listings, and was happening both domestic and internationally orders. However at the same time of all of this-some different orders did go through-so it seems like most {hopefully} are not effected. I have faith this will be worked out and likely in a timely manner as I only see this as being bad for EVERYONE.
