I'm looking for some advice in regards to a recent ebay sale.
Here's my story; I sold a prepaid phone on ebay. The buyer - who buys and sells cellphones - paid for the item right away and I shipped it the same say.
A few days later he emails me that he cannot active the phone bec it is coming as lost/stolen.
I asked him for the meid/serial number, and he had no problem giving it to me. I then called Verizon and they said there is no problem with the phone and it is not on any lost/stolen list.
I told the buyer to try again to activate the phone and he claimed it still wasn't going through.
He sent me a threatening email that if I don't accept the return he will forced to file a dispute with ebay.
Today I received the returned phone. I tried activating it and it worked perfectly! I didn't refund him yet.
The package is ripped open and I can't resell it.
My question is
1) How should I go about this?
2) I suspect that he possibly stole some info from the phone (meid number or other programming numbers ) and he never really needed the phone in the first place.
He's a phone dealer and that's why the whole story is very shady.
Any advice would be appreciated.