Thanks Bob, I got ebay on phone, but she said it's a papal issue and to contact Paypal, so I did chat with paypal for 1/2 hr, but then got disconnected before anything was accomplished. The chat guy in India said to ask the vendor to help me before we got disconnected.
I sent an email and got boiler plate response, so I'm replying with the letter again to the boilerplate response.
I also tried to call but it was 50 min hold, and I had to go.