:lol: you guys have some wild theories there :lol:
I asked for the payment as a gift as I have always done on every forum I have ever used and never once has anyone questioned it, mainly because I wanted to avoid paying paypal fee's. he still sent it as trader payment and I despite adding I still got less then the the price by a few pence that thats not the issue. This was not what I wanted so I immediately refunded the money..
The issue was not how it was paid for, it was how it was paid for in conjunction with the guarantees he wanted with the payment. i.e. item sold in working condition blah blah where I had already told him I didn't know whether it works as I had never used used it, I couldn't guarantee it and wasn't prepared too as we are talking about a 40 plus year old part which I have no experience of using. I bought it from another member on this site and didn't get around to fitting it before I sold my bay.
As far as I was concerned this was not going to be a case of try before you buy and I get lumbered with having my paypal account frozen and dealing with a dispute and probably losing postage too and from. I can't honestly see what could be wrong with an oil bath cleaner but this guy obviously doesn't know enough about what he is buying to ask for these types of guarantees.
It was a case of have a look at the picture, make an educated guess whether the item was worth the gamble of buying.
Asking for payment as a friend/family is no different to asking for payment via bank transfer.. it has no returns.. just like my item I was selling.
Apologies if this doesn't suit the ethnics of the forum but in a day and age where honest sellers have no protection anymore I have to do what I can, and felt it better to walk away from this sale.. hardly me being a thief of types
In fact I'm such a horrible bastard I sent him a link to another air cleaner on eBay where the seller took returns!
