Need help. China seller 1st sent defective item then USED!!!
Litorphan
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Nov-17-2015
09:47 PM
Need help. Seller first sent defective item, after I returned that they sent a USED item & now want to give me $3 store credit for $30 item! Seller is in China I'm in USA... I made this purchase in July it's now almost Thanksgiving! There were other items in the order that have broken just sitting in the boxes & an item they kept telling me was shipping in a couple days that I ended up having to order something else & they refunded the $4 difference. Before they would accept the defective item in the beginning I had to first take a pic then I had to put a video on my personal Twitter account and they gave instructions to make sure I did not put their company's name anywhere in the post! Do I have any recourse at this point? I'm past the date that PayPal allows to start a dispute resolution... What else can I do? Will my credit card company do anything if I paid through PayPal to China?
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kernowlass
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Nov-18-2015
12:23 AM
We have more posts on here for misdescribed or cheap / not good quality items from China than anywhere else.
Cheap is often not good combined with the fact of trying to get a refund and the cost of sending items back again.
Your best bet is to contact your card issuer and do a chargeback.
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.
sharpiemarker
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Nov-18-2015
01:06 PM
You should still be able to open a dispute, right? Since you're a US buyer, US buyer protection terms apply so you have 180 days (6 months) to file a dispute unless you've tried and the system didn't let you file one...otherwise open a dispute on the transaction with your cc company as previously mentioned.
Kudos & Solved are greatly appreciated. 🙂
Litorphan
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Nov-18-2015
03:42 PM
I tried to do the dispute resolution but it doesn't show the transactions from that long ago. It says 2 months. Are you sure I have 6 through PayPal?

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