Congrats Mrs Pingu, well deserved, I am sure!
Mine is just very minor, but something to cling onto in the Maelstrom of shit I have had to endure over the last week and a half.
At the beginning of August I ordered a Vernier Caliper from a seller on eBay, just a cheap one, but the cost is immaterial.
3 weeks went by before he marked it as dispatched.
I waited and the quoted delivery date came and went.
I emailed the seller (via eBay messages) to find out what had happened, only to get a reply that he was on holiday until the beginning of September! so I waited until the end of the week of his return and emailed him again (to give him time to work through his backlog). No reply to the original email or the follow up. I left it another week, and as we were approaching 45 days I emailed again and opened a case. I also ordered a different caliper from a different seller.
Today I have had an email from eBay saying they have found in my favour and refunded the money, not only that the second seller has sent me not one, but two of the items I ordered from him!