mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
What do you plan to do if the buyer returns the item to you in the same condition it was when you sent it to them?
The Best answer you selected is interesting. You said in your Post 17 that you didn't consider this buyer a "scammer". We chatted a little about it. You certainly have the right to change your mind. But since you haven't gotten the item back yet, how do you know?
Certainly the buyer could return something they never even ordered from you or a damaged item or simply a box of air. Many of us have certainly experienced this with outcomes of a Return Request that is completely unfair to sellers.
There is no doubt that this buyer is not fairly dealing with you. The buyer is and has misbehaved. But other than the return shipping costs, you don't know yet what the outcome of this Return Request is yet.
@vintagecraze50 wrote:Sing praises to heaven.
That is a great comeback !!! I would do that too if I were in your position. But how will you handle the refund to the buyer?
@vintagecraze50 wrote:I know you are not going to believe this but I accidental hit the best answer thang when I was responding to a post. LOL!!!
I have no reason to disbelieve you. If you want to correct it, you can easily do that. Go to the post, in the upper right corner is a little down arrow. Click on that. There will be an option to UNselect the post as the Best Answer.
@gloryglorygifts wrote:I guess their return is their plan B, if they don't get any buyers on Mercari. Slick. Real Slick. SMH
I completely agree. However they were more than a bit shady by opening up the Request for Return as early as they did. Hopefully not that they are actually going to ship the item back to the OP, it will arrive in the same condition it was when they shipped it to the buyer.
After the item is returned, I would definitely formally report the buyer to Ebay for their bad faith process of dealing with sellers.
If there's any asterisk to the scamminess it's that it's a very STUPID scam. Like apparently she didn't realize if she wanted to maximize it she could wait until day 29 to initiate the return and then run out the return window until the last day. That would also be extra irritating, if being a hot pepper turd of a cartoon villain were part of her goal.
@vintagecraze50 I'm curious as to how you found that Mercari listing. Did you have the faintest suspicion or was it pure chance like you were looking at rings on there and just happened to see it? Also I'd like to see a pic of this ring if you're not opposed. Because unless it's exceptionally unique or big drug dealer's ring, you did well getting $220 for it already, . In my experience pre-owned gold tends to fetch a barely-above-spot price fairly easily; going beyond that is harder, and so her $480 would be laughable. Even with gold spiking an all-time record high and granting this ring to be a fairly hefty 6 grams, here's the spot:
