(Not Same) A kind of thing happened with me too. Had ordered arctic charger + battery through eBay. Package was box packed, but battery looked like old. plastic paper coating was removed from upper side on 2 out of 4 of them. I tried to charge, did not work.
Sadly I had confirmed Item receipt on eBay and left +ve rating too.
So I contacted him and told him that charger is not working. Out of 4 only 3 points are working, and one keeps on blinking with red light.
He said " that's how it works. I am too using it". I thought, may be there's something wrong with my switch board.
Now after 2 days, when I needed cells, I tried charging them. Funny thing is there was no blinking on any charging point. All 4 were charging with red light on. And after 6-7 hours was showing green light.
So he definitely lied about how charger works. Lucky me batteries are working fine for now. And already 1 week was passed, I did not think about old batteries.
Incident with Jeri was really something different from him. He is mostly active on eBay now-a-days. And I would never suggest a person to buy from a dealer whom we are not familiar with. eBay, it's ok, but not directly via web-site, where payment options are direct NEFT only.