Interesting, rare and sometimes cheap ebay items.

[neeno]

Considering how long they've been around, and only had one negative feedback before this incident, AND considering they are refunding money with the claim that they will still send out the toys (leaving it up to the buyers to pay for it later if they want)... I get the feeling that it was probably just an unfortunate accident by someone else in their business, who boxed up the wrong items, or didn't know that a toy was to go into the boxes (if they saw a hat in each box and assumed it was ready to tape up and post).

A scammer wouldn't refund the money, and wouldn't still be on ebay selling hundreds of items, a year after they first started. And their completed sales in the last three months have been 447 items (sold, out of 660 listed - that'd be a lot of work to scam a dozen people out of $47 each).
The amount of items being sold by this dealer would need at least 2 or 3 people to run... perhaps it is even an ebay account set up by an existing toy store in China.

If they are refunding money, it's not a scam... and if they still send the toy, it's sounds like some expensive damage control over a mistake by one of their employees.

That was crossed my mind, but it almost impossible to believe that every shipment has the wrong item sent. At least they must be one right item sent or in other words is there a member here who received the real thing from many purchases made?
hey, how come a seller with 447 items sold only received 90 feed backs?

From my experience buying from the Chinese sellers, mostly they are just the middle man, when we ordered something then items were sent directly from the different suppliers.
Maybe the reason why he refund is that he didn't expect this accident would happened and also being scammed by his suppliers.

If that's what happened i pity him, but i still want my money back. If he really want to resend the item, then just send it with an express mail to make up the mistake, no need to ask my permission. sometimes it is better to lose money than your face.