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While not very polite.... sellers are not required to combine shipping. Ebay strongly discourages it, as they charge a fee from the seller for shipping on each auction - if you combine two auctions, Ebay gets less money in fees! If she wants you to pay for the ponies you've won right now already, so she can ship them and upload your tracking to get her money faster, she is within her rights as a seller to file a "non-paying bidder" and/or cancel the sale on you, IF the ponies have been won and the payment time is stated within the auction, and you still have not paid her. Remember, Paypal is going to hold the funds from her, until she proves she has shipped them or other criteria! Even if you want more ponies from her, she was doing a favor by combining the shipping on the first group of ponies, so not paying her immediately is definitely going to cause frustration. Even more so if what mskittylovesrobin is saying, that she is going through a life crisis and needs cash now. Edit to add: and I would suggest a whole other slew of options for you to negotiate with her, if she hadn't blocked you from further auctions at the outset.. I read that over again and it sounded harsh. Unfortunately Ebay has NOT made it easy to have fair transactions for all parties, so a lot of people are paranoid and extra-sensitive about the people they sell to. *pony hugs*
eBay is really not set up to allow sellers (Especially new sellers) to offer combined shipping for items purchased a week apart. New sellers don't get the funds released until several days (at the minimum) after the tracking shows the items have been received. Many sellers use an automated non-paying bidder system which kick in after so many days of a completed auction. If you paid for the first set of items then she waited a week to ship, it will knock her status down in eBay's internal monitoring system, and take even longer for her to get out of eBay's "new seller fund holding" period. Since the seller is new, she may not have realized all of this when she originally agreed to combine shipping. Unfortunately eBay is set up to speed along business & complete transactions. Extended holds don't work well in eBay's current system.
That's a shame. She should have remembered. I'm not sure if she's here but she was on the MLP trading post site and mentioned that she was having to sell her collection due to a divorce. So maybe that's why she's needing the money. But I do understand your frustration. X