I don’t think they won a return case. I think there was a case regarding the chargeback itself.
I thought the chargebacks were made through the bank of the credit card owner, not through the eBay account? What am I missing?
From this it’s plausible that the eBay account is using a stolen credit card.
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Not really plausible in this case, unfortunately, unless you believe that the real CC owner didn’t notice $50,000 in ebay charges until the very last day of the ebay case window lol
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Yes I suppose I’m confused about the chargeback process here also
The CC company and eBay would have all the information needed at their fingertips to prosecute this guy. eBay are looking like they’re going to be the ones losing money here, I’m hoping they pursue this route!
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Chargebacks are not initiated through eBay.
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Unfortunately, I don’t think eBay’s counsel is concerned with petty theft. eBay and financial institutions have net incomes in the billions. These cases are smaller than rounding errors on their books.
But they matter a lot to us!
The best approach is to submit multiple police reports. If an officer receives multiple credible reports hinting at a felony charge, they may forward it to the prosecuting attorney.
We don’t have the intricate details or info proving fraud needed to supply police or an attorney. eBay and the CC company would need to contribute to the investigation. Using your logic (which sounds about right), they will likely not bother putting any resources into providing said evidence.
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The way that I see it, there are two outcomes here:
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Everyone submits a police report of fraudulent chargebacks and nothing happens.
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Everyone submits a police report of fraudulent chargebacks and the police investigate.
Your job as the victim is to provide evidence of wrongdoing with names, addresses, dates, and amounts stolen. The police and prosecuting attorneys will do the heavy lifting if the case has legs.
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Case study. If noone looks into it everyone can have free stuff forever which balances everything out.
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I’m still confused by the anecdotes in this thread. I am almost positive if a buyer issues a chargeback then eBay either opens a return or asks you to initiate a return. I have never heard of them just refunding both the seller and buyer and ending it there.
I think we verify his shipping address through the affected members and do some black market sh!t… Unpopular opinion, I know 
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My understanding was they went to their bank and filed an item non-receipt or fraud case.
Seriously. haha But naw… we can’t 
Agreed. But if the seller, OP, get’s their money back from ebay, ebay is the victim, and as a giant corp, I think there’s a good chance they just sweep a few K under the rug and call it a tax write-off.
@acebren, I hope, pray, send positive chi, everything, that ebay makes you whole. This sucks.
I plan on making a thread that has all my bad buyers listed and I encourage others list their bad buyers so we can have an E4 Bad Buyer Block List. :]
I couldn’t resist throwing the option out there, but you right! 
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Exactly, we are not the vicitim’s in this case.
eBay has returned my money to me 
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There was a huge one at one point, looks like it’s been deleted though
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Went to block the user from my eBay only to be hit with that he’s not a Registered eBay Seller anymore. Word of the day; anymore.
Hope everyone got their money back and sorry to those who got a chargeback. Hope some legal action will be pressed.
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He opened a charge back with the bank and won the case, even if item had gone thru eBay authenticity AND he had left a positive feedback.
I was using my US eBay account on this sale so eBay eat the loss but they told me plain and simple I would have been out the money if I had used my italian eBay, which has no authenticity.
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Looks like he’s changed his username. Is anyone able to post his new one?