If it doesn't show up in your Paypal account page, then it isn't from Paypal. Usually, if it is a buyer with an unregistered address, you will have to choose to "accept" or "deny" the payment. Also, when a buyer pays through Paypal and uses a credit card instead of a bank account to provide additional funds, there is a delay in receiving the money, which is what your email sounds like, but there should be something on your account page to indicate this.
Go to the ebay auction, sign in, and click "order details". That will tell you the status of the payment. Also, in the original ebay email with the "send an invoice" button, if the auction has already been paid, or the seller indicates that the payment has been sent, then you will not be able to send another invoice. When you click the button, it will go to the "order details" page, indicating that it has been paid through Paypal.
I figure that you already know all of this, but maybe someone else reading this doesn't have your experience with ebay.
Greg
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