Buyer claims not received

I have send a tracked item to Brazil at the end of December. I’ve just now had a claim it’s not received and wants a refund. I have not got these tracking details anymore and it’s been 4 months since posting. Can I refuse to refund? How soon does a buyer need to report if an item hasn’t arrived?

 

jckl1957
Experienced Mentor

The buyer has 30 days from the latest estimated delivery date which you should be able to see in your 'orders'.

If they have opened a payment dispute rather than an Ebay case, they do have longer to do that and you would need to have tracking proving delivery.

I would advise keeping your proofs of posting for a longer period - I keep mine for a year.

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)

Your buyer has 30 days from the item's last estimated date for delivery to open a case for item not received.

 

Only a tracking number showing delivery will close the case in your favour.

 

If this is not available you will need to fully refund within 3 days so as not to receive a damaging defect on your account.

 

Just to ask was this by chance a GSP item?  Then, all that's need here,  is tracking to show delivery to the GSP location in the UK.  If it was a GSP item and tracking does show this and a case is opened,  make it clear in the case tracking Has shown delivery to the UK hub.

 

@hanveneklaasslot-0 

Same as @jckl1957 I also file my proof of posting slips away for a year before disposing of them. 

 

Buyers have 120 days with most debit/credit card providers to issue a not received chargeback, and your only protection against that is a tracking number showing delivery. 

 

Were the tracking details not automatically uploaded or uploaded by you to the original order? If so, they should show delivery/non delivery.