I quite agree with you and I very much understand your reasoning, thus the best resolve is amid the arbitration between the buyer and the seller.
Now, as we work and try our best to be productive, well, things “at some point” will go wrong, but if we stand perfectly still and never do anything, nothing will ever go wrong, such if life.
The dollar amount in the referred matter, is really moot, there are no winners.
But for the sake of argument let’s increase the dollar amount by 3 digits of the inadvertently returned item, as to address responsibility, nothing more or nothing less... Cause and affect: The seller, therein their post, is noting an error within their listing. The buyer didn’t receive what they thought they were purchasing; the buyer wants to return the item. The seller accepts responsibility and accepts the return request, thus, in essence, is agreeing with the buyer and to the buyer's mentioned error in the seller's listing... The buyer inadvertently returns the wrong item and acknowledges that. So, inadvertently the wrong item was returned, "now, do note we increase the dollar value amount of that returned item for argumentative purposes," thus the question is what caused the buyer to make such a mistake and what caused the buyer to return their purchased item, to start with... In respect, it would be worthy to well document the item that was inadvertently returned. And, if the matter can’t be worked-out in arbitration, then the seller doesn’t have much of a choice, one way or the other, for if the returned item they received, is not the item they sold, then technically they are responsible to return it to the sender, and if not, then it can open an ill door.
I have found on eBay, too much description can hurt, and too little description can hurt worse, either way, eBay puts the low volume seller in a pickle barrel
