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ebay glitches mean I cannot issue a refund

Back in October a buyer in Peru bought an item for me, which now after 45 days they claim has not arrived. The item was low value, so I naturally sent it with no tracking (I am UK based), hence my only options are to give a full refund, including shipping. However, when I try to process the refund on ebay, it firstly takes me to the Spanish version of ebay, which I then need to translate (ebay helpfully has a translate button, but do I really need to be taken to the ebay.es site?). Then when I have the options translated and hit the "Refund Buyer" button, I end up in a constant loop where I am offered the option to refund the buyer again and again, but I cannot actually issue a refund. Yet again I as the seller am left spending my time, effort and patience trying to carry out a simple task because of sub standard programming and testing. Any ideas how I can resolve this before I am black marked by ebay? Thanks

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ebay glitches mean I cannot issue a refund

You need to contact ebay support to get your refund through it seems. What I'm confused about is why you're shipping internationally without the use of ebay's global shipping program. But I don't know if you have access to the program in the UK.

 

If you use the global shipping program, then all the liability of lost/damaged packages falls back on ebay, and not you.

 

 

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ebay glitches mean I cannot issue a refund

Thanks for the response djdaniel. I suspected I might end up spending countless hours on the line to ebay trying to resolve the issue, but hoped there might be a platform based solution. The reason for not using the global shipping programme is that the item only weighs about 10grams which I can post for £2.25, but ebay global shipping programme will charge more than double that so buyers will not buy very light items where the global shipping programme is the only option. I happily use ebay global shipping for heavier items. Cheers.

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