Item went faulty

[optimist1976]

I bought a phone in December as a gift and the seller advertised a years warranty on their page.

a few weeks ago the screen went faulty so I contacted seller and sent phone back.

seller claimed phone had been dropped (which it hasn't) and therefore wasn't covered by the warranty and tried to sell a screen replacement at my cost.

I said no as phone was faulty not mistreated so didn't uphold the warranty and I just asked for the phone to be posted back to me! 
can anything be done? 

[*vyolla*]

Nothing can be done via eBay, their 30 Day Money Back Guarantee has long passed.

Any warranty offered by a seller is only ever going to be as good as your ability to enforce it and, as you've discovered, you can't.

Is your seller a UK business? If so, contact the Consumer Action Group (the first site that comes up on Google) and ask there if there's a route that you can follow to get a refund here. If you paid with a debit or credit card it should be easy enough to issue a chargeback.