@joyandkate wrote:
Original question was not answered...how do you send an invoice? And why should it be so hard to even find it?
To answer your second question first, it's not something you normally need to send, unless you're doing some kind of combined shipping deal or similar in which you need to override eBay's original total. But in this case, you're selling one item, a $2000 train set, so the buyer should not be coming to you with a payment problem. If he's having problems paying, an invoice is not going to solve his issue; he needs to work it out with eBay.
Incidentally, I agree that the buyer doesn't look suspicious as far as his buying pattern is concerned, as he has a history of buying S-scale trains only, as opposed to a random list of smart phones, laptops or whatever.
You can send an invoice by going to your Sold items page and finding that option in the Actions column for that item. You might also find a Send Invoice action in the sold listing itself, although I don't have any unpaid Sold items at this moment to verify that.
I would not suggest sending an invoice in this case because (1) it won't help, and (2) it will serve to lock in the Shipping charge to the buyer's default location, rather than to whatever other destination he might choose at payment time, leaving you to eat the difference.
Your buyer already bid $2,500 on your train set, retracted that, then won it with a single bid of $2,000, so if he really wants it, he should be able to work out his payment problem himself. He might be getting cold feet and hoping that you will offer to cancel.
