The gag is generally that the item does exist, it just turns out to be a piece of junk not worth anything near what's been paid for it! When dissatisfied you contact them, the seller will say: "no problem, just send it back", the problem arises when they instruct that you have to send back to Australia!
After you establish what the freight is going to cost, you just surrender to the fact that you've been had!
And you can't leave bad feedback because the seller will rebut that they are cooperating fully and completely, and a refund will be returned just as soon as they receive the item back; reasonable right!
In the instance I experienced, the seller turned out to be an airline pilot who frequently flew back and forth from Australia; he had a partner in the game there who's physical address you would be given for a return, and they would happily receive the item if you spent the dime to ship it back, then the item would just fly back to the U.S. freight free as 'carry-on' of the pilot, or any other flight personnel (as it may have done the first time getting here
), then to be shipped from here, as it's cheaper for them and your more likely to buy it if it 's here, to the next buyer until it stays sold!
But in my instance, with a lot of frustrating dialog and being that we had a rather large ebay store at the time, ebay realized the value in our point of view on the subject and credited our account fully, they picked-up the item, and they shipped it back to Australia for the refund!
Scott
