Originally Posted by
-holiday76
no, the case here is that USPS screwed up, so why should the seller be forced to eat it? I agree that most sellers probably would to keep the buyers happy, but be forced to? Not sure about that. In the end the USPS should be held responsible.
Nobody is asking that the seller or ebay eat anything. (see below, from the OP)
......We know they sent the package back to England. And the seller has it. He freely admits this; he even sent me photographs of the package, showing that it was correctly addressed......
I have emailed the seller asking him to send me a PayPal invoice so I can pay him to ship it to me again; .
By any logic this should be treated as if the buyer received the wrong item, and returned it for replacement or refund. The ONLY issue is who should eat the postage wasted because of USPS error, but in this case the OP is willing to, so there's no issue there either.
I expect that the seller will reship if the postage is paid, but
ebay is in the wrong for failing to look at the totality of the situation. And your post reinforces the notion that ebay staffers are fixed in their thinking and unable to deal intelligently with nuanced issues. (possibly/hopefully you didn't read the original post)
BTW- delivered to the wrong address is not that rare a situation, and a business like ebay should be ready to deal with it on e way or another.