Marilyn, my guess is that you "woke him up" a bit with those messages and hopefully he'll do better with his follow-up in the future, but I see this as a paperwork detail that he's simply not very good at and it's something that can so easily be corrected by you, so not to worry. I click on the "Paid" button all the time when I get a "you've got feedback" email notification from a seller and realize another seller hasn't marked one or more of mine as "Paid." If you haven't purchased from him before I believe you will be very pleasantly surprised when you get your daylilies, and to me that's what counts.