What would you do, as a buyer, in this situation?

[xFenrir]

Final payment was done yesterday, not on the 13th. Was he supposed to ship after only receiving partial payment?

If I hypothetically wait until next week and do nothing, that could bring out the date of a potential refund beyond the 20 days that the original transaction occurred, factoring in allowance for shipping delays (let's say the snake was a DOA, or something.) I am wondering if I should just seek to reverse the transactions, if possible. I am really scared of losing my money on this. The seller had pretty good feedback on the BOI, but not much of it.

This is why she is worried... I'm not too in-the-know on PayPal, but it looks like it goes by the BEGINNING of the transaction, not the end of it. So by that logic, it has been 10 days since the original payment. Yes, the offer to refund happened less than 48 hours ago, but PayPal doesn't care about that because that's not on the TRANSACTION record. So, if she "waited to see what happens" and then contacted PayPal about a refund, they would probably say they can't do anything since it's beyond the timeframe for refunds stated in their ToS or wherever they have those rules.

Like I said, I see nothing wrong with her covering HER behind on it, especially when it's an online transaction. Buyers remorse or not, it's HER money and she can do what she wants with it.