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    Quote Originally Posted by shendog View Post
    Ya, you have to learn how to play the game sometimes on eBay. Learning to deal with these people is no different than handling difficult customers in a store or anywhere else. If he cant return the goods, then he gets no refund. I would stick to my guns if you know it was working and have photo documentation, but be prepared to refund if it magically appears. He cant win a case with eBay if he cant produce the equipment and return it to you.
    The pics I listed in listing shows it turned on and working and im a freak when it comes to using bubble wrap and stuff so I highly doubt it was damaged but thats why I figured its possible so thats why I offered partial refund as I could be wrong.
    He claims it would cost him $25 to ship it back from his country.
    I had no knowledge of it going anywhere else other then miami fl so im not sure whats the point of having someone pick it up and ship it to him versus
    telling me to ship it to the carribeans something aint right.


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    Quote Originally Posted by IAscrapper View Post
    The pics I listed in listing shows it turned on and working and im a freak when it comes to using bubble wrap and stuff so I highly doubt it was damaged but thats why I figured its possible so thats why I offered partial refund as I could be wrong.
    He claims it would cost him $25 to ship it back from his country.
    I had no knowledge of it going anywhere else other then miami fl so im not sure whats the point of having someone pick it up and ship it to him versus
    telling me to ship it to the carribeans something aint right.
    Some foreign buyers skirt the Ships TO USA ONLY by finding a forwarder in USA, registering their USA address with ebay, then giving that as their USA residence address. The "middle-man" there simply forwards it on to their actual NON-USA address
    Last edited by Bear; 12-14-2013 at 09:04 PM.

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    Just a little update here.
    I told the buyer after what I know now was not going to refund him anything so he has chosen to open a claim as I suspected he would,
    He now claims water damage. So this went from it wont turn on but charges fine just want some money back and ill set aside to replace screen to now its water damaged lol
    I suppose that is possible since it was on water going from miami to the carribeans without my or ebays knowledge but what he dont understand that little part is out of my hands.
    Last edited by IAscrapper; 12-17-2013 at 07:59 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bear View Post
    Some foreign buyers skirt the Ships TO USA ONLY by finding a forwarder in USA, registering their USA address with ebay, then giving that as their USA residence address. The "middle-man" there simply forwards it on to their actual NON-USA address
    A lot of buyers that use stolen credit cards do it this way also.

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