Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm a former ebay powerseller, and I've been selling on ebay since 1997 (it wasn't even called ebay then) so I have a pretty good idea how to handle the situation, just sucks that it had to happen. I havn't heard back from the seller yet but I'll give him 24 hours before I file my grievances with ebay and paypal. I maintain a balance in my paypal account from selling so the funds came from that not from a credit card.

The lot takes up way more room than a flat rate box, more like 3 or 4 and the seller spent $29+ to ship to me parcel post. I havn't had time to sort it all out and see what I can probably get from the lot as is, but at best I'm thinking like $2/lb for the motherboards and maybe mid-grade for some of the other stuff if I"m lucky. Maybe $30-35 total value there if I'm lucky. If the seller works with me and I get a halfway decent partial refund I'll be happy but who knows. The seller only had like 2 negs in last year and one was for not responding to a bidder who wanted to return an item, so we shall see. They sell lots of stuff but this was first and only escrap lot I saw.