Just an update to all - appreciate your responses by the way:
I hope this is appropriate given the age of this post, but my saga with this has just recently been resolved.
The purchase never arrived. It was lost in shipping once it entered the USA it seems... USPS is unable to find it. They claim that all mail is "photographed" automatically but somehow there is no photo of this shipment. The shipment finally arrived at the USA after over 95 days since leaving Jakarta (according to tracking info) and past through customs no problem, and looked like it was on its way to my doorstep when it started looping between San Francisco and Montana.. going back and forth between the 2 shipping centers. They somehow stopped the looping, but package could not be found. It has remained this way since, despite opening a Lost Mail Search and talking to people at the last distribution center of USPS.
I have been made whole entirely for this purchase by PayPal, which I am very grateful for. The purchase was protected by their policies.
The seller has gone completely AWOL a long time ago, his email is disconnected and he did not even respond to the PayPal dispute.
I will be forever curious what was actually shipped that ended up being "lost"... who knows.
Thanks everyone, be careful!