OT.What about unhappy ebay buyers?, Tell me if this is fair Options

[james2]

So, a friend of mine had a 56 chevy 2 door post he sold on Ebay. car was pretty solid, a little rust, no motor or tranny.

So the car sells for$3250.00, a little low if you check the price of the cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

The buyer sends his friend to look at the car and pick it up. The guy crawls over and under the car inspecting it, pays and hauls it off.

Couple days later the high bidder calls and says he is not happy with the car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

My friend offers to repurchase the car, and is happy to do so because he had a local buyer offer more money anyway.

The High bidder doesn't want to return the car, but wants part of his money back. Or if he does return the car, he wants an additional $1000 for trailering it both ways.

My friend ask me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) and i said no way! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

He is afraid of bad feedback. I told him to take the bad feedback and see if ebay will take it off or just live with it.

What would you do?

[Brando]

It's not your responsibility. Unless stated, there is no return policy on the deal, which is legally binding and final. He can leave you bad feedback, but all you need to do is either leave a remark on your feedback about the seller failing to fully inspect the vehicle himself, knew of the issues and is trying to extort half of the purchase price back.

If he wants to get all of his money back, he can ship it or drop it off. It's only fair. In the one event when I did have to take an item back (stubborn buyer who could only be made happy that way) I did not refund shipping prices. They paid for it to get out there, they can pay to give it back. I never charged shipping for the replacement item though, and that seems to be the norm for most all buyers and sellers on evilBay.