I recently sold an item on Ebay shipped, received the money, and figured end of story.

Next thing I know the item shows up at my house again. So, I go onto ebay and see that there is a chain of messages that I had no idea about (no notification emails sent to my linked email account - so I had no way of knowing until I logged back onto Ebay).

Apparently, the buyer had requested a refund (don't know why ebay lets you say no refunds when you list and item because that means nothing apparently), I had not seen this request, so the seller escalated. Ebay still did not send any notification to my email. Ebay approved a refund and sent me a message that the amount would be taken from my bank account. Nothing in my email inbox, all communication was on the message service on the Ebay website.

I was pretty annoyed already, because when I checked the item there was nothing wrong with it. 

However, when ebay messaged me the amount that would be deducted from my account I was shocked to see that it was not going to be the $302 I had received for selling the item, but $361 the full amount that the seller had paid. 

So I sell the item, ebay takes their cut (fair enough), seller complains and is automatically given a refund by Ebay, I have to pay the full refund myself including ebays cut and the cost of return shipping, ebay keeps the $48 that they took as a selling fee. Now I am over $80 out of pocket and I have done nothing wrong. Won't be using this website to sell ever again and I will be warning every person who will listen about this.