I have tried everything suggested most prior to posting there has been no linden response to the Jira I posted on either. Oskar Linden suggested posting here initially. Oskar life is swamped with new issues and the way I contacted him was not for this issue or really in his Job remit but at least he had thought of a way of sorting this.
Only one merchant has responded to my queries, this merchant made another attempt to give me the items by hand when I was online which was successful. The other two merchants have not even bothered responding at all.
Another merchant totally separate from this contacted me and sent me an item via a vendor free of charge to see if that would work. This worked and they would not take any payment for what they had given me
I do realize this is not a merchant problem and its a second life problem.
One thing I would like to point out it is impossible to keep your inventory below 512 items for two main reasons, sl creates a library with over a 1000 items in which cannot be removed from inventory ever. The second is every time I have tried using viewer 2 it has put back into inventory every calling card for a person on my friends list, once it put back every calling card I had ever received. Yes I am guilty of having just over 10,000 items and that is since a major clean and boxing of inventory this time last year that took inventory to 3,000 items.
I would like to thank you all for your suggestions on this but I think I will just have to right off the $L spent and find the items inworld while only using market place to source items in the future until Lindens make some response to this and the Jira in a positive manor