Seller wont refund

[rainbowsnuff]

Hello everyone,

A friend is in a pickle. They won an item paid for it. It was a local buy about 3-5 day deliver max. after 2 weeks they contacted the seller who said the address was wrong  and the item was retuned back to them( a text was sent out to resend the item at the same address and was text the address). That was well over 3 months now and the seller keeps saying they have deposited the amount into the buyers account, well not really as he did today, he did yesterday and will do tomorrow. The seller throws in an excuse he is having dinner the bank was closed we will do it via net banking, has the bank details, put the money in didn't put it in etc etc. The seller has removed his ebay account this week now. He still is making excuses for not been able to deposit the amount owned to the buyer. It was not paypal it was bank deposit. The seller did send an email but it was not through ebay used a private email with his banking details so the only info we have is the text messages. Should we call it theft and go to the police.

[lyndal1838]

I think we all know how it will turn out.  If the seller has played you along for this long he is unlikely to take any notice of anything you say now.

You can report it to the on line fraud squad but this will not get your money back.

Just use this as an expensive lesson and open a paypal account...and use it.