" excuse 1 excuse 2 excuse 3 etc etc etc "
No I would personally have not returned it OP for multiple reasons. I'd have read the auction and asked questions before I bid, and also pointed out the listing error if indeed it was one.
8000+ transactions on eBay and this is how you decided to conducted yourself ?? REALLY ??
My husband -- who is on eBay , here, and elsewhere, offered up this nugget==
Having been been on eBay since 1997, he says " eBay ( and life) is full of idiots who make mistakes and do not own up to them. Just tell the most recent idiot you encountered to just follow eBay's rules on cancellations or returns, quietly block Mr Non-Reader and Non-question asker, and do so without telling them or announcing it to the world like its some major issue instead of the minor one it is . Just move on with life as if it never happened and forget about it " is how he'd have handled your ignorance. This is why he does our eBay sales and I don't
SONJ