not paying return costs on ebay

Al123_

Morning all, after some advice, I recently sold a brand new product on ebay with pictures taken of it sealed before shipping. The buyer then contacted me to say it does not work on his car. My issue is it has been taken out of packagaing and stickers so It therefore is not classed as brand new anymore. Ebay obviously took the buyers side and said I need to give a full refund. I ignored it numerous times and now I have -£500 in my ebay account. I have removed all card details and addresses and names from my ebay. I have no intention of paying this and will happily have my account blocked as I will not use ebay again. Is there anyway ebay can still contact me even though I removed ALL MY DETAILS and will they be likely to take me court as I am looking to get a mortgage within the next 6 months and this could effect it?

thanks guys in advance 

sourcrates

Ebay will probably write or email you to tell you your account is in the red, and has been passed to collections to deal with.

It will likely be a back street debt collection agency, you won`t have heard of before, that contacts you, they will then try to chase up the money from you.

In reality all that means is they will write to you a couple of times, ramping up the threat level each time, quiet laughable really, as they don`t own the debt, they are akin to a toothless tiger, as there is nothing they can do, and it won`t appear on any of your credit files either, after a month or two, all will go quiet, and it will be forgotten about.

This company never take legal action, there are numerous threads on this forum about this subject, there buyer policy almost always favours the customer, which in a lot of cases is wrong, and obviously if it went to court you would be able to defend the claim, and likely win it, as the courts give you a much fairer hearing, unlike eBay.

So as there policies are not legally enforceable, they never risk legal action, as they are acutely aware they would lose.

Expect one or two letters, they may try to phone you if they have your number, after a while of ignoring them, they will go bother someone else, and that will be that.