I bought a lot of books, mostly because there was a "Good" condition copy of Red Arrow, Black Shield. Turns out that that book, as well as a D&D Masters DM Guide (oh noes!) is sans book - just the cover. That's a stretch of the imagination I think even Coug would have trouble making (and it's good, not VGC! anyways).

Since the seller doesn't seem inclined to be reasonable about her screwup, I wanted to get advice on how to get a reasonable refund from PayPal. Is the end result, even if I'm in the right, going to be me having to pay to ship all this back, in order to get a 100% refund? Will PayPal give me my original shipping cost back?

I paid $43 plus $5 shipping. The $5 didn't come close to covering her shipping costs, but I paid what I was asked to pay, so I'm not going to lose sleep over it. If PayPal decides the woman screwed me, will I end up with $48 + cost of shipping her books back to her, or something else?

I'm guessing I'll get $43 back, and have to pay to ship back the books, just because that'd be the stupidest and least fair way to handle it, and thus the most likely for PayPal to use.

i would just simply send em back insured so you know they get there and say you want a full refund cos they were not in the condition stated - if you were in the UK, she would be in breach of the sale of goods act, but as she aint, you cant use that one...

once she has them back i would just contact your credit card and do a chargeback if she wont co-operate.

mind you if it was me, i would prb take em in person if they were being arsey about it

Al

killjoy32 wrote:i would just simply send em back insured so you know they get there and say you want a full refund cos they were not in the condition stated

Shipping them back would probably cost me around $15. So, I get no books, and pay $20 ($15 + $5 original shipping) for the priviledge of having no books. That's not gonna happen

killjoy32 wrote:i would just simply send em back insured so you know they get there and say you want a full refund cos they were not in the condition stated - if you were in the UK, she would be in breach of the sale of goods act, but as she aint, you cant use that one...

once she has them back i would just contact your credit card and do a chargeback if she wont co-operate.

mind you if it was me, i would prb take em in person if they were being arsey about it

Al

Paypal and Ebay in these cases are as useless as tits on Rupaul.  Kill is right...give her a chance to make it right, if she doesn't, do a chargebackon your credit card.  Avoid Paypal and Ebay completely (except to leave negative feedback if she is really pissy about the entire thing or leaves you negs first).

Mike B.

Paid with PayPal balance, so I'm hosed.

Looks like I'll end up with a $10 refund, hopefully. Might let me break even on the rest of the crap I got stuck with. The only other book worth a damn in the mess is a beat up X11.