I'm not defending the guy, it sounds like he's really messed you about. But, sometimes eBay buyers are just as bad.

I sold quite a bit on eBay over the summer. One item in particular, an ECU and loom, the buyer wanted to send the ECU back for most of the purchase price plus both sets of postage in refund. I told him to send the whole lot back for a full refund or nothing. I heard nothing for 2 weeks until he opened a "not as described" case saying there were bent pins, burnt out board etc etc.

The outcome was he had to send it back for a refund. The process of which is to provide tracking info within 10 days then an automatic refund once royal mail mark it as delivered. 11 days passed with no tracking info but they still let him send it back. Then he sent me back a completely different model piece of crap ECU and loom that were both broken.

They refunded him and took the money off me a few days later even though I told them about it before Royal Mail even marked it as delivered. In short, it took me 2 months to try to sort it myself. It took a call to Natwest Visa to sort but it was instantly sorted, I now have my money back but eBay tell me they have taken the hit.

Like I say, not defending him but some buyers can be lying twats too and most of their processes are flawed.

Lee