Returning damaged item to seller....

Shipping claim is not on the recipient to start!

The shippers property and he has the contract with delivery service so he must start claim.

No matter who paid the cost of shipping and insurance.  

So you spent nothing, have been payed back in full and you have the shippers property and he is out of pocket for both shipping fee and the item.

So just what high ground are you on again? What is the lesson you want to teach him.

Whatever you think it is or whatever your reasoning now... it doesn' t really fly alongside the virtuous mud being applied here. I'm betting the cost to send it would be negligible to pay it in full. 

Your withholding his property   unpaid for by you for the sake of a few bucks (his half ?) and some idiotic moral dilemma... its literally a few bucks out of your pocket..compared to his loss...regardless of how anything is packed the delivery "experts" will always find a way to damage things.

My conscience would be clear when he had his property back . 

but I'd never post this type of stuff on a forum about a private sale. Personal escalation in mass  never works, feedback after private discussion is usually sufficient and less likely to have one of two ignored afterward.

That's just how I see it...

Apparently....

So he should be out more costs to justify your stance. But your the only one out here so your 1/2 offer justify’s that cause your the good guy.

Interesting, now we find it was delivered..you were away then you saw it was damaged.

Wasn’t it evident on the package it was damaged.

People always see these things in the bias that effects them. My thinking, the need to amass others to be sidled along that bias either way publicly , completely erodes its veracity.

What is the point other than ones own vanity.

The decision is made, the facts are one sided from a biased faucet and its an after the fact incident that is not a general alarm to an on going scam to require a forum to solve or fix anything. Its kind of like housewives gossip .... it never does anything of use. Irony...most that side with you, yourself included would be suspect or pissed at the after the delivery damage and I was away so couldn’t report thing if roles were reversed . Thats reality..often a contention brought up...

It has cost you nada, yet your the one publicly complaining displaying it wrapped in virtuous mud . Feel lucky many aren’t and bare the costs and they don’t gaggle publicly even when they would be certainly more justified. Solves nothing as the reason its posted is never as stated or to help anyone or anything. As far as clear conscience goes,....then why is it still an issue to bring up?

My gawd man, give it a freaking rest.

He’s out the shipping costs, the value of the item

AND your still making this all about YOU!

I will just outright say it. Your being a selfish self centered pr**k who is out nothing but the time that you thou lady has spent in protest for no other reason than to virtue signal your own better than self. You lost nothing yet your telling us all how great you are , and surprisingly you bring a clear conscious...a clear conscious has no memory, much less a need to prop and posture .

Curious choices in shipping and a silly deduction that what he sent represents how well packed by price. Costs are primarily derived from the dimensions not just its weight. AND...CANADA POST is far cheaper use shipping out than any suggestion your bias used to post them coming the other direction.

Know this, like it or not...every post you add makes you that much less attractive to any sale moving forward. One sided personal attacks when nothing is lost except your self respect, for what gain measure or lesson is it worth. Remember you said you didn’t want to teach him a lesson...then said to hold him accountable. Contradictions and the leaky faucet of information with no one arguing their conscious but...you...try feedback...thats what its for..not forums...

Shipping has inherent risks regardless of what you think. The after sale in the event something happens when one party is left whole while the other is saddled with all the loss...and the previous posts their issues and virtues...don’t be a  Karen...