The post office were within their rights to charge for the return to sender package. It had been delivered to the buyer and was returned to the post office 6 days later as return to sender.

It just adds salt to the wound in that it should have been a remorse return paid for by the buyer but because they lied to ebay in a sworn statement they got fully reimbursed by ebay for the original postage and we copped the return postage because they didn't pay to send it back at their end.

The most annoying part is despite all of the obvious evidence that the buyer lied to ebay in the first place, ebay have flatly refused to reverse their decision so we are still out of pocket both the original postage and the return postage and have a defect against out account because we "couldn't work things out with the buyer".

Basically ebay aids and enables scammers and even when caught out, will not admit the are wrong.

This case will end up in the courts eventually as the last time I checked, providing a false sworn statement is an offence.