I bought a few Arduino Nano plus breakout board “kits” from an eBay seller in Las Vegas, Nevada. The seller seems to be a coin dealer. They advertised the Nanos as Mega328, but the ones I got were Mega168, which have half as much memory. I don’t know if the seller knew they were inferior (could be the seller is clueless), but the goods were not what was specified in the advertising.
I filled out a return request and received a free shipping label, and shipped them back to the seller. What makes me angry is this is the second time in a month I have had to return the goods to the seller because the goods did not meet the advertising. These bloody sellers are trying to rip off the customers, and I hate it.
Another thing that bugs me is that I can choose to return the goods, but the return cancels the sale. There is no way to give the seller a negative rating. If I decide to keep the goods and give the seller a neutral or negative feedback rating, then I’m stuck with the goods and I don’t get my money back.
When I request the return, they allow only a few choices of reason for the return. Some returns don’t fit into any of the choices. You have to lie to make up a reason. They allow a few lines of text to describe, but it’s difficult to squeeze that reason into a few lines. I don’t remember having these many problems years ago, I think it’s gotten worse over the years. Maybe someone will fix this, but I’m not holding my breath for that to happen.
Update Thu Oct 5 – This Afternoon I got an email from eBay saying the seller had refunded the money to my PayPal account. The seller must have received the package back. The seller didn’t give any further information.
