It’s not about preforming it’s not about sending a seconds. It’s about not having the knife back “dude”.
Let’s just say If I had “inspected” the box of the knife I didn’t like and listed it as a seconds and he still bought it , recieved it, didn’t like it, I offer him the refund and the same thing happens, the knife isn’t returned then what? Still my fault huh? Still on me to cut the lose and refund the buyer just because i got a box with something other than the knife in it?
Basically what you are saying is buyer has no responsibilities in a return right? Because I am the one that packaged the refund/return box up wrote the return and sending address and sent it off right? Right.
Sending a 2nd *is* non-performance. Why is this difficult to understand? You represented one thing and delivered another. This is the central issue as, without this, everyone would likely be happy with the transaction.
If you want to play the conjecture game then let me submit that, if the buyer knew it was a 2nd, he may have not bought the knife at all (thereby avoiding this fiasco) or he may have simply accepted it when it arrived (again, avoiding this fiasco).
Backing out a trade isn't based on "not liking the knife". Its based on the knife being misrepresented which it was (this is uncontested by either of you). If he'd said something along the lines of "whoops, just realized I don't like framelocks, let's back out" then you'd have cause to tell him to pound sand. That didn't happen here.
As far as "no responsibilities". What responsibility did the buyer skirt here? The box was packaged well and arrived in one piece to you.
You're essentially claiming fraud. You're provided next-to-nothing to support this. The picture of a random tool with a random usps box isn't evidence of anything. If you want to dig your heals in on that then go ahead and contact the postmaster general and ask them to investigate. I sincerely doubt you'll do this and doubt even further it'll go anywhere positive.
Ive got over 100 on knafsale and 200+ on eBay. Besides delayed shipping from the postal services this is the only problem I’ve had.
And how do you think Ebay would handle this situation? My money is on they'd simply refund the buyer from your account. If you're persistent enough, they might eat the $$ but that's unlikely.
The various possibilities: 1.The knife was stolen in transit. 2. The buyer was angry about getting a factory second, and decided to keep the knife and send a tool to express his anger. This doesn’t make sense since the buyer appears to be serious and has 150 perfect feedback record that he would not want to tarnish over the small amount of money. 3. The seller was angry about getting called out for selling a factory second, and decided to create a scandal by putting a tool in the box and contacting a moderator, thereby casting a shadow on the buyers excellent reputation. This seems like a very illogical thing to do, but who knows. 4. The package passed through the Twilight Zone, which had the effect of dematerializing the original contents, and reforming the molecular structure.
I'd add that there's a ninja USPS worker who stealth opened the box, took out the contents, replaced them with a tool, and re-sealed the box perfectly.
That's the spectrum of possibilities we're working with here.
For me, the bottom line is (unless the buyer or seller confess to committing fraud) that the seller initiated this entire drama through (likely unintentionally) improperly describing / documenting his knife.
