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@ibeyondwu wrote:
I would like to offer a return, but I what a way to make sure he returns what I have sent. does the postman or the people work at the post office can be a witness? Will eBay care what my witness says?

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I would not ask your local postman to be your witness but the postmaster/mistress at the PO should be able to do it for you.

If they happen to be a JP (many of them are) it would be perfect.

It is doubtful if ebay will care what your witness says but once you have the item back, taking the overseas element out of it, there are authorities in Australia who can force ebay to do the right thing.

The most important thing is to get the item back into Australia.

The main question no one has asked so far:

Has the buyer/scammer? even opened a dispute ?????

If that were the case the Op would have had $ 1500.00 frozen in their Pay Pal account until the case was settled one way or another.

So far that doesn't appear to have happened or at best we haven't heard about it ......

It appears to date it is only a question of "what if, what if, what if and what if"

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@annieoakley2000 wrote:

The main question no one has asked so far:

 

Has the buyer/scammer? even opened a dispute ?????

 

If that were the case the Op would have had $ 1500.00 frozen in their Pay Pal account until the case was settled one way or another.

 

So far that doesn't appear to have happened or at best we haven't heard about it ......

 

It appears to date it is only a question of "what if, what if, what if and what if"

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Yes you are correct Annie.

It's not clear in the opening post if/not a formal return case hase been even opened.

I had assumed so since there was a question "should I accept the return" in the opening post.

To me this implied that a return case had been opened. But perhaps not.

So if its just all been via messaging between buyer/seller so far then do nothing more until the buyer should open a formal return case. 

Then go with all the above advice from that point.

You're absolutely right lol there hasn't been any request from the buyer yet.

Apparently no dispute opened, that is why I suggested to offer the buyer to refund once the buyer returns it.

That will also test the legitimacy of buyer.

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@twyngwyn wrote:
Oh no....seller will sweat now for 180 days

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But if they time out for the MBG, Paypal will normally require the buyer to return an INAD before they will enforce a refund.

I lodged the insurance claim with AP, their US office contacted the buyer asked him to take the watch for inspection. The buyer just contacted me saying he had figure how to adjust the date of the watch, and "the watch is seemingly working fine and accurate", he is not interested in taking the watch for inspection. Should I cancel my claim with Australia Post?