I think that is a great answer.
It's a tricky situation in some ways with potentially no winners.
For a buyer, it may be that items arrive well after they were needed or it could be the buyer has bought others to replace what didn't arrive.
And for the seller, they have done the best they could, posting the items and making a full refund and they are out of pocket.
To me, the first thing, as you said, is to contact the seller, to see what they would like to happen next. Then take it from there.
And as you also mentioned, so much depends on circumstances. And to some extent, perhaps on the cost of the item or return postage.
As a buyer, I would contact the seller. If they were items I still wanted or needed, I would just offer to repay the original price for them.
If I were the seller, I would be asking the buyer if they still wanted the items or if they wished to return them and depending on the cost, perhaps offering to pay the return postage. I'd do that because the buyer was honest where to be perfectly frank, a lot of other people would just say nothing. And because if the item was something they no longer needed or had bought replacements for, it wasn't their fault it arrived late and they shouldn't be up for return postage.
In this case, I am getting the impression shyaus is prepared to keep the items but not desperate for them. In his case, I would wait a few days to see if he gets a reply from the seller.
Ideally, a seller should be refunded in full but again, this is a tricky situation. We haven't been told the cost of the items. At the time they were bought, shyaus had obviously budgeted for them but arriving unexpectedly as they have and with Christmas almost upon us, he may not have all the spare cash right at this moment. I think if I were the seller, I'd accept a payment by installments, anything back is better than nothing.
