If you are experiencing difficulty updating auction lots meaning you have a Paypal payment but nothing in the eBay sold items, it is a paypal issue
It is impacting sites/sellers all over the place
Paypals' API and IPN is not working correctly. There could be duplicate payments appear in your Paypal account for a single transaction.
There will not be any Sold item show up for the transaction at eBay (or where ever else you sell)
I spoke with Paypal tech. They expect to have the issue resolved in 24 hours. AT that time the IPN should return back to eBay (or where ever else that had problems) the completed transaction. Which will in turn cause the sold transaction to appear in the eBay sold items.
The buyers will not have any record of the bought item either. It is just a payment in your Paypal account right now.
Isn't that just the way it goes!!
All should be fixed in 24 hours, according to Paypal anyway
Paypal is reversing all the payments to the AWOL transactions.
If you have shipped the item, please contact Paypal and provide the tracking number. paypal will consider crediting the transaction back if the item is shipped.
The Paypal tech said they have prevented this from happening in the future.
Buyers will need to go back through the site checkout again if they still want their item.