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Whilst I am not disputing the seller has probably been scammed of course there is a much wider issue here of how do you stop sellers sending shonky goods as well as buyers returning shonky goods? There is in the grand sceheme of things going to be a lot more sellers selling shonky goods than buyers pulling scams like this if eBay relaxes its policy. It's an impossible situation for everybody and I would never in a month of Sundays sell high value items on eBay.
Firstly, I think the situation could be other way around:
Most sellers have stores, are here to stay - and there is only so many times they can cheat someone! They would have to disappear and obviously couldn't continue indefinitelly with the practice of posting **bleep** stuff.
But the amounts of money would have to much higher, to make it their worth while.
On the other side are the buyers, who have nothing to loose and on top of that enjoy much more support from Ebay - so can maintain that sort of behaviour for a much longer time.
Ebay's policy shouldn't relax as such, still important to be as vigilant as possible - but each case would need to be treated on it's own merits. Since they have taken it upon themselves to be adjudicators they should do it properly - as it is now it's a mockery of a just decisions.
Can you imagine if the courts bunched everything together with mandatory penalties for one and all - without looking at all the evedince, sometimes so glaringly obvious that you'd trip over it!
