heya - sorry if I wasn't clear =
I'd won a total of three lots:
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemnext&item=330728616471.htmlhttp://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemnext&item=330728626091.htmlhttp://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemnext&item=330730938002.html so the wild card on value was whether the sea pony in the shell was italian - she was (blue eyes) but interestingly it looks like it might be a UK shell = or else that darker yellow has faded (so not a sea pony expert - thank goodness for that "seapony utopia" site for reference) and I haven't a clue if I did OK or not on a spanish applejack as I'm thinking I did just OK on the berry family. The applejack and family were kinda set completers for me (well you can never find all the colombian AJ's but other than that I gotta enough orange/yellow going on) so I have to admit a tad bit of an emotional attachment (ain't that always how ebay sucks ya in?) to want to make it work in this case, and not just cancel the whole thing.
So the shipping I was quoted was 25 euros and in the end she threw in an italian sparkler and winger and sent the package priority or man, I just lucked out how fast shipping was (sometimes it takes a month or more) to take only a week.
So yeah, that's what I am struggling with = appropriate feedback. On the one hand, she did not advertize she'd willingly ship international, on the one hand I am not fluent in french and flubbed to translate she did not have paypal, and on the one hand she did throw in some extras to cover 10 euros of cost. On the other hand she did have paypal, on the other hand she didn't follow ebay policy to provide a correct invoice and on the other she opened a non-pay case on me in the middle of trying to work things out.
So there's the big picture - for what it is worth - like so much in life I'd like to consider it half full at least as it could've been worse, but yah, typical ebay roller coaster that's for sure
M