Is it just me or does that title actually sound ridiculous to you too?
So I bought a pedestal fan from a reputable store on ebay 2 months ago for around $80. The fan now only works on the very lowest speed. Any higher speed and it will turn itself off about 3 seconds later.
Contacted the seller. Asked me for video proof. Did that. Now, they don’t want it back and are asking me to cut the bloody cord in half and send a photo of that before they send a replacement!
The thing is the fan kinda work at the moment. I can give it away to someone on gumtree who may just use it as is or fix it. Instead, they want me to cut the cord and then end up with junk that I have to deal with myself.
They haven’t responded to my last message yet but that was only a couple of hours ago. I am just curious if that is a standard practice?
This is a huge seller with more than 1.2 million items sold on ebay alone and 99.2% positive feedback!
Cut the cord.
Take photo.
Put plug back onto cut cord.
???
Profit.
It's not unusual for a business to ask you to "destroy" a product they are replacing or refunding without wanting it back. Very normal for defective physical disc games for example.