@missioncoonery Not saying you're not being truthful, just saying there may be high likelihood damage was incurred in shipping, in which case seller is not at fault. I'm surprised this possible issue hasn't been brought up in your statements thus far. I presume paypal and seller (if seller honest here) brought this up amongst themselves, if not with you.
Too bad you couldn't have worked out something with seller. I've had two issues as seller when things were damaged in shipment, both cases no outward appearance of damage on packaging materials so no shipping insurance coverage. In both cases I worked with buyers by my partial payment of repairs, maybe I was lucky in having such understandable buyers. This just to say shipping is tricky proposition, shippers pretty careless these days, overworked and under great stress, I see this every day at my family business.
Also, did this seller have large amount of feedback? I always check for this, will purchase from someone with little feedback, but only after telephone conversation.