Ebay listing with no return policy - "Item not as described" as a recourse?

[travrosty]

my advice is to get your opinions on the autograph FIRST so no one has to go through that headache. just because you can get an authenticator to say no good, does not mean it is no good, and as a seller i can relate to others sellers frustration to selling a real autograph only to have a buyer claim it is no good and produce a rejection letter from a TPA that does not know what they are doing.

as a seller, we always hope buyers will get an opinion before they bid, that way if they find a tpa that doesnt know what they are doing, and rejects the autograph, that buyer will not bid, which is fine, but it doesnt screw up a transaction that has already taken place, and the seller has to go through the long ritual of getting the autograph back, sending out a refund, relisting it etc.