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After 2 months of  back and forth with steam I have finally been issued a replacement, however the rep still wants me to send back the original. I told him that the UPS centre wont accept my package as it has a swollen battery, but now he has sent a courier to my house to collect it (I told the courier that I didn't have anything to send him and it must be a mistake).

I'm at a loss of what to do now. I want to end the SE on good terms because the only reason I went for the replacement method is so that I could use my main steam account on the replacement deck without it being potentially flagged etc. and I was gonna sell the original one to recoup the costs.

Any ideas ?

say it exploded and you disposed of it. pay someone to edit a picture/video for you. lots of options still

I could certainly try that however, its been 2+ months and I don't know how believable it is, that it suddenly combusted as soon as he sent the replacement.

Originally you said the battery was swollen or did you tell them other stuff too?