A couple weeks ago a friend of mine gave me his laptop, it's a Dell C800, Pentium III 850MHz, and he had spilled sprite in the keyboard. It doesn't boot anymore. My GF has been wanting a laptop for who knows how long, so I am trying to repair this one for her.

Now I managed to find a motherboard, CPU, bottom case half, video board, modem/ethernet, and ram all together on ebay for $80. I bought this on the 1st.

I email the seller asking for a tracking number so I can be ready to work on it the day it gets here, no reply... It comes in on the 16th. I open the box to find a Dell C500 bottom half...

What the hell?

So I email the guy again telling him he shipped me the wrong part... now it's the 18th and still no reply...

What should I do at this point? I got his address off the shipping label, which with some googling got me his full name, phone number, square footage of his house and how much he paid for it, his other house, and the number for that. It's almost scary what you can google these days... His phone number was unlisted for the shipping address, but there is another house in his name very close to there with a listed number.

So, should I call the guy? Contact eBay? I've never had a problem like this before, and I'm very disappointed that she isn't going to get her laptop as soon as I told her she would...

You'll have to double (no, triple) check the sale on Ebay to make sure you paid for what you thought you were getting, and then contact Ebay.

Feedback on the seller might shake his tree a little too.

Negative feedback on his account. Once you get it sorted out, you can petition ebay to remove it (and likely the feedback he leaves on your account).

Go sit on his doorstep, and beat him to death with your laptop's bottom half that he sent you. Then steal your money back.