If an unscrupulous buyer replaces MNH stamp with hinged stamp, will Paypal/Ebay review it as theft?

[pardnersmb]

    I am afraid a stamp buyer in Hong Kong, who deals in many stamps himself,  will replace a MNH stamp with a hinged stamp.  If he does, will good pictures of the back prevent full refund, or is it inevitable--even if my pictures shows it was not hinged.  He may actually be after a 'discount', as he called it--the Dirtbag!  TYIA, B.L.

[malolo]

I'm no expert but I owned a single once of this stamp and the perforations on this look very strange. I'd be more concerned about this sheet being a fake than whether it's hinged or not.

[pardnersmb]

Wow...talk about confusing the subject...

[malolo]

No confusion at all.

Check these two auctions for the same sheet.

Fake 

Apparent real

Now check out your perforations, and I suggest you use a 15x loupe to see the print quality.

[pardnersmb]

Print quality was outstanding, verified by a professional, but not certified. 

Interesting, but does not answer the question.

[antonius-ra]

If that is a pic of the back of your sheet in the first post, then I would say it is defintiely not never hinged.  I see marks at both sides of the top and one at the bottom left.

It appears that the gum is missing in these places.  Even if not caused by hinging (as they appear to be) the term never hinged does not just apply to the absence of evidense of hinging.  It more correctly means any disturbance in the gum that was caused after it left the printer.

[cobbie10]

I agree with Ant-ra. There are two hinge marks / patches of missing back at top left and right. Also, it has no gum so cannot be MNH but unused, no gum which decreases the value substantially ( if it is real - which it doesn't look like to me ).