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Kind of a serious issue about an eBay transaction! Any help?

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/kind-of-a-serious-issue-about-an-ebay-transaction-any-help.182390/

ithehappy
ithehappy Original post #1
Mar 27, 2014 at 7:15 PM
Okay, the story is I purchased something from eBay on 14th March. And the last date of shipping was today, 27th March. And I just contacted the seller and he says that the item is not available and I will get the refund. Okay, but the problem is I paid from my dad's Debit card, which is his Pension a/c, and there is no allowance of incoming transactions / payments for that account. So I called eBay to make sure after the refund process is initiated in which account am I going to get the refund and they say they will refund in the same account! Now that's scary, cause I won't be getting the refund if they initiate the refund process for that account. So I asked them if there is an option to have the refund in a different bank account, they asked me to hold the line and disconnected it!
If anyone faced any issue like this before kindly input some suggestions here. I will like the refund to come sound and safe, but I am worried :|

Thanks in advance.

PS : This may not be the proper section for this topic, but I need attention of viewers to be honest.
W
Mar 27, 2014 at 8:27 PM
contact bank where pension account is as this is a topic that requires good understanding of banking system.however as far as i think there should be a difference between incoming transaction & a refund transaction as refund transaction initially originated within the pension account(without this info how can amount be refunded) but incoming transaction always originates from a different account.in any case in matters of electronic transactions money just doesn't disappear & if there is indeed problem in refunding to pension account the seller/ebay payment system too will register error with amount coming back to them.
skeletor
Mar 27, 2014 at 8:50 PM
It will come imo.

Debit Card refunds aren't your normal NEFT or Cash Deposit "incoming" transactions.
ithehappy
Mar 27, 2014 at 11:00 PM
Oh okay. If it comes in then all right, I will see what happens.
Thanks for the inputs.

PS : I have emailed eBay in detail, don't know if they ever read the emails or not!