Obvious fraud on the sellers side (especially if it happens a lot) will eventually lead to a blocked account. In some countries ebay can pull records and block the ID for that market entirely.
The only exception I have seen were Asian accounts with thousands of sold items per day where the fraud cases don’t justify canceling that revenue stream.
you could forward the messages to the ebay security team in your market.
lots of sellers on eb@y are simply drop shippers; they never had the item in the first place. eb@y isn’t going to do anything about it as long as they gave you a full refund. As a matter of fact if you complain chances are eb@y will even remove your negative feedback. Their system is wack.
I got those headphones in that deal and they actually were shipped from Amazon, so yeah they were drop shipping from another source or store.
Sorry don’t have the box anymore to see what the seller was but do not remember there being any invoice in the box.
I have had negative feedback that I gave removed. Any feedback deemed “retaliatory” will be removed. Their system is certainly sick, although it works.
eBay’s system is skewed toward the sellers because that’s where eBay’s money comes from. Buyers don’t pay eBay anything directly for the privilege of using the system, although you can say the fees of the sellers are passed on to the buyers in higher prices. eBay has just enough of a safety net for buyers so that most buyers will stick around and spend money. But it’s bad enough that buyers do get screwed sometimes.