ebay deal advice

[Bogie]

Bought a copy of some software. Supposed to be the "full" version.

What the guy sent was the educational version, with the stickers peeled off the box. Now he says "send it back, and he'll issue a refund."

I trust him as far as I can throw my Residential Security Container, which at the moment is full...
 
Ideas?

Options?
 
His first offer was to refund over 50% of my purchase price.
 

[Nick1911]

Send it back.  Registered mail.  With signature required.

You have to be in a position where you and the seller are basically calling each other lier's (or no communication) before you can invoke the big hammer (aka. PayPal)

[Thor]

I'd also take pictures, screen prints and report the individual to eBay. Any and all documentation you can present will aid your case.

[Gewehr98]

Does he speaky Engrish? 

[Bogie]

far as I can tell...

[Gewehr98]

My dealings with eBay auctions gone sour is limited to just a couple in the last 200 I've done.

PayPal was the one that did the investigative footwork for me after the complaint was filed with their parent eBay.

I was absolved of wrongdoing, because I had purchased delivery confirmation and insurance for the item I shipped, and provided that info to PayPal.

I would imagine eBay and PayPal (if you used the latter) would open a case for you fairly quickly, once you let them know that the deal was fraudulent.  PayPal has the means of refunding your full purchase price, too. 

The allegedly non-receiving winner of my auction tried to use that feature until my delivery confirmation paperwork showed that the box made it to his or his neighbor's door, and a real person signed for it. Then PayPal shut him down cold.   

[Bogie]

Well, it looks like this guy took a $200 software package, and represented it as a $750 software package...

Should I mail it back to him? If so, I'm going to take photos first, and send it registered/tracked... He offered to send another set, but I'm not sure just how far I trust him... If he's selling enough of these that way, and getting enough gullible people, he's making about $350/transaction, so he can likely afford a few "fixes."
 

[Jamisjockey]

He's a crook.  Report him.