I missed the original post.

What I will say is that I'm getting pretty put off with E-Bay sellers that misrepresent their items. Take photos that fail to represent damage or excess wear on items. Essentially use E-Bay as a dumping ground for stuff that could not sell locally if buyers were given a chance to inspect the merchandise.

Or, perhaps those sellers that use stock photos...
Then when the item arrives, it doesn't look at all like the one depicted in the ad (but the sellers try to claim that the wrong part is an "upgrade".

Especially when one gets stuck with shipping being half the price of the part.

Personally I usually just take my lumps and move on, and rarely give negative feedback, but I have asked for a refund when I ordered 2 items and the seller sent me 1, when NOTHING arrived, or when I got telephone parts when I ordered bicycle parts.

I suppose the question is whether an astute observer would have been able to discern the issue with the part based on the photos and the description.

I will start selling some items soon, so I will get to see the issues from the angle of a seller, but I will do my best to sell quality merchandise with a good description.