eBay charges the seller a final value fee after they give the buyer a refund, the buyer has to cancel the transaction first before the seller gets a credit
People who wont communicate with the seller will ignore the cancel transaction request so the seller gets robbed by eBay, for instance you sold a $2000 item and gave a refund for whatever reason now you have to pay a $200 final value fee
eBay gives the buyers a warning telling them to get a refund first before you agree to cancel the transaction, so basically after the buyer gets a full refund they can reject the cancel and force the seller to pay the final value fee, A class action lawsuit should be filed against eBay for this type of criminal activity
A lot of sellers don’t realize they were charged a fee after they gave a refund, especially when the fees are under $1, this adds up into billions of dollars eBay has ripped off from the sellers over the years, most of the posts about this are hidden to make sure big corporations like eBay keep robbing people all over the world, there’s nothing you can do about it and you’ll never get it back
Another unique way eBay rips the sellers off if the buyer pays with a stolen credit card or any kind of scam payment through Paypal you’ll be charged a final value fee and you wont be allowed to do an unpaid item report, this is a slick criminal Paypal move, the payment is approved and not approved all in one, this opens up the feedback so the criminal buyer can give the seller a negative and blocks the seller from getting an unpaid item credit
eBay is going to charge the seller a final value fee even though no payment was ever received or refunded, it happened to me for $1.30 i let it go just to see if ebay would rob me and they did
There is absolutely no seller protection on eBay, buyers can do whatever they want and get away with it
eBay Negative Feedback Warning 