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yes, the OP is exactly right.

The problem is not the chinese understangin english but we not understanding the chinese people. They understand very well, so well infact that they make products that look exactly like ours, that work well (if used properly) and at a fraction of the cost.
They know us so well that they use tools of trade and retail invented by us better than we can use.
They know our psychology so well that even before they make even one buisness transaction, they already have a bunch of positive feedbacks on ebay.
They know our laws and buisness model so well that they know that ebay will be on their side when the matter is disputed.
They also know that when we finally wake up and think of doing something about it, they will be conning us with a different username or with a different product alltogether.

And all this comes to them naturally. I am raised and bought up in India and street sellers in there also use the same stratergy. It all comes to the people from third world countries naturally, and do you know why? Because there is immense compition in everything we do in our country so we r trained to do the best or die. Its survival instincts, some people do it in a lawful way (and steal "your jobs") and some people do it in a partially illigal way (robbing "you" of your money on ebay)

Hence, you see immigrants from third world countries when they come as students, they usually do better, when they go into buisness they do better, in jobs they do better, so naturally when they decide to fool you, they do good job at that too !!!

And the funny thig is, they learnt all of it from you, so while supermarkets use "small prints" to "boost sells" these people use it for survival, who do you think will win?

I am one of the person who was fooled by such person in ebay, but I returned the favor by telling paypal I did not receive the player at all (instead of hacked memory)
Now, I knwo that paypal cannot verify anything, cause the package was sent as "gift" so even if they send police to my home (which will not happen) I will tell them this was a gift 1GB player and that I never got 4GB player that I was supposed to get, also the package does not say it was sent as a result of ebay transaction !!! So I got my money back.

We have to understand here that these people are thieves and we must treat them as that and not as buisness counterpart, do that and you shall do fine. The times are changing, the world is smaller !!!