If the seller is found by eBay to be covered under Seller Protection, the refund will be funded by eBay.

 

If the seller is not thus covered, eBay initially provide the refund but will be reimbursed by the seller. The seller don’t have any choice in those circumstances, as the eBay User Agreement grants eBay permission to access the seller’s funds when a refund is owed.

 

 

 



I have the same concern as gutterpunkz has expressed, mind you.

Dear Contessa (I've always wanted to be able to write that!),

 

Not sure if I should be concerned, but if the seller appeals:

A) Do I have to wait for the result of that appeal before getting a refund.

B) If he wins, and he has had the item returned, does that mean I may lose my money and not have the item and be forced to be pay the return postage which chat said would be at his cost? Not sure I can rely on anything I have been told. Ebay keep moving the goal posts

 

I get the feeling I am being run here; he knows all the tricks and I could end up with nothing.....guarantee or no guarantee.

Seller is a registered business on eBay UK, with 2 days handling time, and many red dots for the same issue .

There’s your ‘out’ 

 

If you click on his store and go to ABOUT,  you will see his name, address, email, phone number 😲

"There’s your ‘out’".

To quote Ms P. Hanson "please explain?".

He had 2 days to send them, so didn’t keep his end of the bargain, technically Not As Described

If I bought one today, delivery would be 19th -28th March


@id43564 wrote:

Dear Contessa (I've always wanted to be able to write that!),

 

Not sure if I should be concerned, but if the seller appeals:

A) Do I have to wait for the result of that appeal before getting a refund.

B) If he wins, and he has had the item returned, does that mean I may lose my money and not have the item and be forced to be pay the return postage which chat said would be at his cost? Not sure I can rely on anything I have been told. Ebay keep moving the goal posts

 

I get the feeling I am being run here; he knows all the tricks and I could end up with nothing.....guarantee or no guarantee.


Your refund should be issued irrespective of an appeal. I do have to say should. But generally speaking, if eBay later find merit in the seller’s appeal, they (eBay) would wear the cost of the refund.

 

In light of the seller’s clear pattern of bad behaviour, the seller would be doing a Sisyphus to induce eBay to find in their favour on the strict grounds of not having sent the item until past the EDD.

 

 

My main concern would be the type of dispute - but as this was chosen by the CS rep, and you have a copy of the chat, hopefully you’ll not be out of pocket.

id43564
Community Member

I know it's not over yet, but I just wanted to thank everyone for being so supportive and helpful. Your collective knowledge of these issues is amazing...thank you.

id43564
Community Member

Ebay UK and Ebay AU seem to have the same policy of not allowing members to send an email address via their messaging system and will block or change the message to not include the address. I assume that the seller knows that already so this appears to be yet another delaying tactic.

I asked chat earlier today to suggest an alternative and he could not provide one. I was told on the phone by escalations today, that if I don't provide my email address to the seller, the case will be closed in the seller's favour.

This is getting absurd.

FGS......I hope you're keeping all the transcripts