I recently sold a item for $500.00, I stated I did not want to ship internationally, due to increased risk. A person with a Florida address purchased the item, and three weeks later he's claiming I sent him not what he ordered but instead I sent him trash. Customer is alledging I scammed him in this manner. After investigating the person, I found the address I sent his item to was a shipping forward company, and once they received the item they repackaged and sent his item to Germany.
My question, beings he did not send the item to himself but another company how can he alledge I scammed him, and beings I stated I was not allowing international shipping and he bypassed this with the 3rd party service, should I still be held liable? The company he sent it too has several bad reviews with some alledging they steal from their customers.
Im thinking the case should be closed in my favor due to the fact he sent it to someone who sent it to him, and how can I be held liable when I wasn't the last peeps know whom handled this item but another company actually repackaged this iten and sent it to him.
The tracking number I provided doesn't track his item to Germany because the company purchases another label and ships it to him. "I originally had no idea this was happening, but thought where I was sending it was going to be him.
His account is registered in Germany and the address he provided is to a company not in his name or affiliated with, but a company that states what they do on their website "Forward Packages"
This guy rubs me as a person who has done this before but I'm not sure if he or the company he had me send it to got him.
So am I liable for the package being shipped to him from the Florida address or does my liability simply end where I had originally sent it too? Ebay wasn't the one who seen that the address was to this company but I plan on making them aware of this. How do you think this one will go, or am I'm just screwed out of $500?
