$100 BBP Abod Axels?

A while back I bought a rear pair set of Weld Zero Drag (identical to Centerline AutoDrag) 15 x 8.5" aluminum wheels with a 4-7/8-inch backspace for my 1974 Plymouth Duster.
A 15 x 8.5" with a 4-7/8" backspace is not that easy of a wheel to find, no matter the vintage or wheel type. I e-mailed the seller before bidding and sent him a link here https://www.rsracing.com/tech-wheel.html asking him to confirm all his measurements were accurate & taken correctly. He replied that they were all correctly measured, so I bid.
I paid more than I wanted to ($267.50 shipped), but I really wanted these wheels. I was extremely excited to finally have a pair. While they were in transit I purchased a nice set of matching Centerline AutoDrag 15 x 3.5" front wheels so I had the complete set ready to go. When the 15 x 8/5" wheels arrived I opened them up and checked for damage and to confirm the condition. They were very nice, however not the correct size. They were only 15 x 8" which are much more common and not worth as much, especially to me. Extremely disappointed I wrote the seller an e-mail which included photos and stated my unhappiness with the transaction. I told him that the error was clearly on his end so here are my thoughts of what should happen to resolve this situation so we are both happy. (i sent it through eBay so there was a record of it showing I was polite and trying to resolve things being civil.


1.) I could ship the wheels back to him and he would give me a FULL refund because the error was his. He would cover the shipping expenses both ways (~$67.50) so I wouldn't be out anything.

2.) I would keep these wheels and he could just issue me a partial refund of $67.50 which would make me satisfied enough to leave him positive feedback and he would still have sold the wheels for $200.00 shipped. That is still a high price for 15" x 8" wheels. This way nobody is losing any money and both parties should be happy even though I would still need to purchase another set of 15 x 8.5" wheels.
Another thing that angered me was I passed up an auction for a brand new set of 15 x 8.5" wheels with the 4-7/8" of backspace for only $30.00 more then I gave this seller ( uwin07 ) for his used ones because I thought I was being thrifty.

He replied to my message through eBay with a very nasty attitude and was sarcastic as could be.
I was extremely polite AND more than fair with him so this really burned my @ss.

His offer was a partial refund for $20.00 and for anything else he recommended I contact FedEx because it was probably the changes in elevation & barometric pressure that shrunk the wheels during delivery.


I Immediately filed a dispute hoping to work this out with the seller through Paypal so everything was logged in official records. They asked what amount of a refund would me me satisfied. Not wanting to be greedy I typed in $80.00 still thinking this was more than generous on my part.

He never even replied to the dispute so I escaladed it to a claim. In a Paypal claim Paypal takes ten days and decides an outcome based on both parties input.
Once again the claim form asks what a fair/unbias partial refund would be so this time I put $100.00 (which it should have been from the start).
Ten days go by and Paypal decides in my favor, however because the seller only has $26.55 in his account at the time that is all they could recover and credit me back.
At this point I was just happy to show that jerk that I was not a push over. Paypal says they will monitor his account and continue trying to get my money back, blah, blah. I have heard this a time or two in the past and nothing ever came of it so I just blew it off and spent the $26.55 I had got.

A week or so later I got an e-mail from Paypal stating I had a refund so I went to check out how much was in my Paypal account. When I opened up my account I was shocked.
Paypal (or he?) gave me back the other $240.95 I paid the seller for the wheels!
I got the wheels for free, WAHOO!!

Hopefully I can buy another pair of Centerlines Autodrag 15 x 8.5" wheels with a 4-7/8"-inch backspacing and then sell these wheels to cover their cost or most of it!