Posted By:
edacra
The best thing might be to try contacting Paypal and insist on speaking with a supervisor. In my experience they are the only ones who can authorize the refund.
Tell them you were sold an outright fake. You can word an auction any way you want, it's still illegal to sell a forgery.
They will likely have you open a dispute so that their fraud team (cough choke) can investigate. None of this will resolve your issue.
In my experience, they will then tell you that if you send the merchandise back, with tracking or confirmation to prove the Seller got his goods back, and then call them back, they have to credit. You'll probably still have to argue with them, and they'll try to hold $25 out of the refund, but once you say "I don't have the merchandise anymore, it was returned" and you provide proof of that - it doesn't matter if the Seller authorized the return or is expecting to get his card back.
Good luck.