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I bought a Randy Owens framed serigraph titled "Rain Man" on Ebay for $325 with free shipping. Paid immediately through Paypal. After 10 days, nothing. I contact the guy and he says he's just now sending it out. It arrives about 6 days later via USPS. The packaging was crap. He wrapped it in cardboard with some peanuts. No bubble wrap. It shows up and the glass is shattered into a million pieces, some of which have sliced the serigraph, matting and dinged up the black frame.

I tell him about the situation via Ebay Respond and he goes ballistic, claiming its USPS's fault, calling me a liar, then claiming he doesn't have the money because he had to use it on his little brother's funeral.

I open an Ebay dispute. I tell him to refund the money back to me, then I will send the serigraph back to him. He refuses. Now he's responded to the Ebay dispute saying he will refund once he receives it. I don't believe him. Also, who is going to pay the $30 to ship it back?

Anyone with any experience with this sort of thing? I've been on Ebay for something like 12 years and have hundreds of transactions without any issues. This is the first one. I had a guy receive a monitor I sold once who claimed it was "dusty" and he wanted his money back. I told that guy to ^*(&(ing clean the monitor and go pound sand. Never heard back from him. LOL.