I bought a game the other day (Final Fantasy III SNES) from a seller, I paid through Paypal immediately after the seller sent the invoice. Today I looked at the "My eBay" page to see where it shows auctions that I have won. Next to my sellers name, it shows that he is no longer a registered user. That kind of makes me a little worried that he might bail on the item, but he had 100% feedback of about 75 positives even up until a couple days ago...

I just sent him an email (he gave his email address in the auction invoice) to see what was up (and he also promised a tracking number).

Has anyone been in a situation like this before?

I would try to get your money back ASAP through paypal if possible. I've never been in this situation but because you did buy through ebay and payed with paypal, you can still get your money back. Good luck with it.

I have been in this kind of situation twice actually. I didn't have problems either time. If the seller doesn't respond to your email I would file a buyer protection claim, otherwise I would wait about 10 days and see if it shows up or not.
~~NGD

Yeah, I'll wait to see if I hear anything back from him. I usually give people the benefit of the doubt. I don't want to be too hasty in making judgements here.

He didn't seem like the type that would bail out. Feedback was good, emails that he sent to me were friendly, etc.

Is it possible that his account was suspended by eBay for other reasons?

Yeah, give the seller at least 14 days, and if no item arrives, file a claim through PayPal. This happened to me about 2 weeks ago actually, and what ended up being the case was that the seller was also selling demo CDs, and ebay yanked his account. He was even a 99.x% powerseller, and when I emailed him asking about it, he replied, and within a few days, they re-instated his account. So it doesn't always necessarily mean they're gone for good.

-Dain

Good stuff. I'm hoping that this is the case. I got a pretty good deal on FF3! And I thought maybe he was pissed that I got it so cheap and bailed out!

I wouldn't get to worried yet. I had the same thing happen to me and the dude said that they had suspended his account for some weird reason. He still sent the game and eventually got his account back up. (You got a good deal on Final Fantasy 2 also lol)

I like deals!

Ironically, that also happened to me about 2 months ago (Speedy_NES knows what I'm talking about). I won a massive accessories lot that Speedy and I were going to divvy up, and the price was awesome -- too awesome, in fact. As a result, he closed his account, closed his email account, and even restricted his phone so that he wouldn't accept incoming calls! I filed through PayPal, won, and was refunded my money except for $25 (it was a total of around $202 for the lot w/shipping).

I'm happy I got my money back, but would have rather had that lot since there was some great stuff in it.

-Dain

That guy sounds like a total douche! That's what I don't understand about some people on eBay. They want to get a certain amount for their items, but don't want to pay the higher listing fees, and then are dissappointed when the item goes cheap.

Just stick a starting price or a buy it now with what you like to get! If it doesn't sell, then it's probably overpriced!