So here we go, I bought some AirPod Pros thinking that they were authentic, obviously the seller described them as such (I know, I know : I should've known better etc.. please spare me), anyways, I payed immediately after the auction ended, as I do with all my purchases (btw it was late at night), at 1:30am the next day or a few hours after I had paid, I received the shipped notification along with a tracking number. Later that day, I went back to my purchases thinking I made a good purchase and noticed that the seller had continued to sell the same item over and over. They had three items listed for bidding with short amounts of time, after those were over, three more appeared and so on. I found it odd so I started digging into counterfeits. I noticed that the pictures the seller was using over and over for the same listings looked off and after much research noticed that they were in fact fakes. Shocked and disappointed in myself and the seller I decided I was going to write the seller and confront or at the very least ask him/her to confirm or deny. That is when I discovered that the seller had been unregistered by eBay (as obvious consequence, the listing was completely removed). My question is when the item arrives, how can I prove to eBay that it is indeed fake without opening the item? As I saw that eBay obligates buyers to send the item back if recieved as not as described or not authentic. Meaning something as simple as not seeing an IMEI (irrefutable proof) won't be a possible solution since I can't open the item. How will the seller cover the shipping per eBay rules if they are no longer registered or even respond to the case being opened? Can an unregistered member respond to messages? So many questions. I hope someone has gone through the same and can give me some sort of advice.
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