why the actual **** are you wasting time communicating with him and why are you wasting more time fannying around posting about it on the interent. refund the man his money and forget about it. unless your sole intention is to be a dick about it the only normal repsonse is to refund him. fine, send him the speakers and let them get smashed up, then he lodges a complaint with ebay, they refund him and you have to spend more of your time fannying around with parcelforce or whoever trying to claim the money back. you have either far too much time on your hands or your sole intention is to try and screw the guy over.