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Originally Posted by gjtreat";p="
...the manufacturer made fools of him... He asked that I send back the player. In my refund request I specified he would have to pay return shipping if he wanted the item back. No further word on the shipping of the item, but at least I received a refund.
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It seems that the frontman is very interested in retrieving the 'physical evidence' of the scam and at the same time creating an impression of being himself a victim of the scam (creating the empathic 'fellow victim' illusion) by a larger predator, and appearing reasonable and offering people their money back in spite of his own loss. Is that violins I hear in the background?
I wrote to him and informed him that as I had ordered and paid for an 8GB player, and he had accepted payment on that basis, then he owed me 7GB worth of player which I expected to receive. He just sent the same autoreply addressing me as 'Dear Friend' claiming to be sorry for the inconvenience and asking me to ship the item back. I'm not 100% sure but I think, because he didn't provide that which he advertised, that the clause about the buyer being responsible for return shipment costs is null and void, and a court of law could force him to provide that which he advertised to all of his customers at his own cost. As you said in your first post gjtreat, he appears to be 'shut down' and no longer has items for sale under that name, though it is more than likely he's going to be operating under another pseudonym. I believe that as eBay have received a percentage of his ill-gotten gain, that they can't keep neglecting their responsibility and claiming neutrality. Don't we have any 'legal eagles' out there who could advise? :? :?: