Sorry, it's a long one! Tldr - my order BTC wallet address changed!
First off I want to make it clear, I have no definitive answer as to what happened here and no proof with which to accuse anyone of anything, I do not think anyone did anything malicious in the following situation and those who were involved did what they could to help.
Having made around 6 or so orders on LB, up to that point orders that went across multiple vendors, I went to make my biggest single order ever at £200 to a single vendor.
Everything went as normal and I was presented with the transaxe page (as I call it, not sure that's strictly correct) with my order value, BTC wallet to send to and the heading of awaiting payment. Entirely normal.
Went to my chosen BTC seller, sent the BTC as I normally do but this time it took a little while to change to 'awaiting confirmation' on the transaxe page. I have had slow confirmation before but not having the transaxe page not register that's the case.
At this point I started to worry and verified that I had sent the right amount to the correct wallet address etc. All looked good and I figured it was best to leave it a couple of hours and return later to see where we were at.
When I returned I checked, no change to my order status except all my confirmations were done and payment complete according to the Blockchain, but not the transaxe page.
To my horror, and on reflection, the point at which I realised the game was up, I found the wallet address associated with my order had changed!!!! Even though my payment went though fine it wasn't linked to my order any more and thus unpaid.
End of the story before my thank yous, this is how it remains to this day, I lost 200, never got to my order and had to place a new order.
What happened?
No idea other than I know in my heart of hearts that the wallet address did change. I checked multiple times through the process and I know it did.
Who helped?
My number 1 guy in all this, Radar Breeder. The missing order was to them and even though this has absolutely bugger all do do with them they were super empathetic and supportive at the time and very very generous in my subsequent replacement order, sending me more than I paid for to try and help. Thank you so much!!!!!
Transaxe, kinda helped. told me the facts I knew already were correct in that it had gone to a different wallet but didn't actually do anything to result in return of funds etc. Claimed the wallet wasn't one of theirs however I strictly use BTC on LB only and only get wallet addresses from the payment screen.
Lesson learnt?
Not sure what the warning or lesson is other than I now make sure I leave my order for 20-30mins to 'settle' before I send payment to the wallet and I refresh the page to ensure the wallet doesn't change. I also screenshot the transaxe page showing where I need to pay.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!
