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> In both cases the agent promptly hung up on me.

That sounds odd to me. I've never had an agent hang up on me, let alone two.

I happened to me many times, but not with Ebay, I think... usually they say something like "I can't help you with this but let me transfer you" and then click

Exactly, can you imagine how frustrating that would be?

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