Budding Sherlocks, any clues ?

[kopenhagen5]

Recently made a purchase of multiple cd's.

Paid, marked as sent, all good. Item 360861732783 (signed and 2 cracks at the bottom of case)

A week later receive a message from seller - 

Australia Post returned your item to me today and one of the items 'tempe di semente' was damaged. I have no idea why as nothing was said on the package.
I will resend today express and give you a refund for the damaged disc. I will also give you a freebie of your choice.

I reply with - That's fine, no need for freebie, accidents happen. Check the address and if the case is damaged , send the disc anyway even with damage.

Seller comes back with -

I wish it was just the case. I copy and paste the address to avoid these kind of issues but in this case it didn't work
Lucky they came back actually (well two at least) 
Same here really, I have sent thousands and it is rare they do not get to the destination unless the person has moved
Thanks for the understanding

So now I'm on the hunt for another one as I specifically wanted this music recently featured on PBS FM.

Great, found another from a different eBay seller. Purchased it, a little dearer but that's ok. Item 261616474313

This all happened today when I looked at the pic of the second one I purchased, gee, same signature on the front and same 2 cracks on the back.

Fantastic, I should message the first seller and tell them I found their cd. Wait a minute, something's not right..................

[go-tazz]

My guess is same seller with two different account that lives in Logan,(which is a suburb of the second location

Brisbane) or the first seller deals with the second seller.

First one sold to Kopes on the 23rd of May and may have taken it to the second users store and sold it to

them at a higher price

So second sold to Kopes at a higher BIN price.

[davidc4430]

i wonder what he'd have done had you asked for a photo of the damage in order to decide what to do?

[tangledstitches]

Wasn't there mention recently of a few people's sold items being relisted without their knowledge? Perhaps the seller did indeed sell it to the other person who's now got it listed, but they don't realise what's happened and rather than admit that they didn't actually send it they made up a story. I've been told some really stupid lies by buyers/sellers on ebay (and elsewhere) - ones that were weren't even necessary.

[davidc4430]

as CDs are so easy to copy i'm surprised there isnt a thriving business of buying, copying then selling the original.

i often wonder why i have a box full of cd's i most likely will never play again (100's of them)

i really ought to put em up for sale.

i have copies everywhere, on the PC, on the laptop, on the portable hard drive.

if dvds were easy to copy the same would apply.

[brerrabbit585]

I was going to say you can find their email by pretending to do a refund, but then I realised you're the buyer so you can't pretend to refund anything!

If you paid with the funds coming from a credit card you could check the reference that's showing and see if it's the same for both sellers.

[kopenhagen5]

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@tangledstitches wrote:
Wasn't there mention recently of a few people's sold items being relisted without their knowledge? Perhaps the seller did indeed sell it to the other person who's now got it listed, but they don't realise what's happened and rather than admit that they didn't actually send it they made up a story. I've been told some really stupid lies by buyers/sellers on ebay (and elsewhere) - ones that were weren't even necessary.

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I think that's what has happened tangles.

First seller sold it perhaps as a later addition to an order or freebie without going through eBay then accidentally relisted.

Now embarrassed and couldn't find it for a week even though marked posted has come up with a story to fit.

But..................busted........nicked..........sprung..................hand in the cookie jar.

I might wait until I receive the cd then send a pic just saying I have the disc..............see what the response is.

Or is that too cruel ?

Which reference brer ?

The countess, am still impressed with your narrative, brilliant and very quickly written.

If you don't already I think you should be writing books.

[countessalmirena]

Spoiler

Thank you, Kopenhagen.

You'll need a cookie jar as evidence: here it is!

[brerrabbit585]

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@kopenhagen5

Which reference brer ?

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Maybe things have changed now but when you used to buy something, either on ebay or another site, and you paid with paypal but used funds from your credit card it used to say in the email you got, "This transaction will appear on your statement as "PAYPAL *XXXXXXXXX"."

I haven't bought anything using my credit card for the funds for a while but I just checked an email from October 2016 and it had that blurb on it.  I tried looking for my own reference/code that appears on other people's statements when they fund a payment with their credit card rather than with paypal funds but I couldn't find it.  I know what it is and I remember it was hard to find before, but maybe it no longer applies and so it's not there. 

It doesn't show when you use paypal funds because in paypal you get to see all the seller details anyway.  The reference or code (just letters or whatever the seller chose to put in) used to always appears on credit card statements but perhaps they've change it now so that the seller's name appears instead.

[kopenhagen5]

Thanks, constant changes makes it difficult to keep up.

[digital*ghost]

You don't need to check CC statements etc, you will be able to tell at a glance from the two PayPal receipts, because the name of the account holder is always in the subject line of the receipt (the seller's name will also be recorded in the transaction history in your account, in case you no longer have the emails).

"Receipt for your payment to XXXXX"

If they are the same, the funds went to the same account.