Hello 'peterdenouden',
<<If you return an item to a seller, and he doesn,t refund you and relists the item .Is this fraud ?>>
It would be naughty, but unless you followed standard procedure, it is not 'fraud', however much
it might feel like it.
Did you mail the item back using a Delivery Confirmed service? You know, a package
that has online tracking.
When you return an item to a seller, you are required to send it back at your own expense
with online Delivery Confirmation. That way, when you enter the number at the Canada Post
website and it shows "Delivered", - meaning the seller has it back, - you will get refunded by
ebay/paypal if the seller does not cough up first.
All this is explained in the following link telling exactly what to do when an item either doesn't show
or is not as described and needs to be returned:
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/buy/item-not-received.html
If the seller is no help, you need to file a claim in the Resolution Center. If, however, you simply
mailed it back in good faith using the cheapest service, the seller knows you cannot prove it arrived
and will therefore say it didn't.
Any time there is a problem, you must open your claim within 45 days, - call it 43 just to be 'safe'.
That's just over 6 weeks.
If this is about that "LOOP Opti Megaloop Fly Reel SPOOL", you bought in February, it is too late for that.
Your only hope would be if you used a credit card. If so, call the 1-800 number on the back of the card
and ask to do a chargeback. Do it now, and have all the transaction details in front of you when
you place the call (card statement, electronic receipts, etc).
Cards have deadlines too, though, so don't get your hopes up. Time is getting on.
<<Is ebay committing fraud by posting an ad of an item owned by someone without their consent?>>
It would be if it were possible for ebay to do this. Sellers list their own items. Ebay is just the venue.
In a way, ebay is like a large town hall or community center that holds the weekend flea market.
All the sellers arrive with their wares but the building owner has nothing to do with any of that.
The building owner just charges for the tables and establishes rules to keep it all clean and legal.
Ebay never posts ads. Only individual sellers do that.
If your seller relisted it is because he has the item back and you waited too long to take action.
Read through the link I posted and don't make the same mistake again.
Best wishes. 
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