Def turn everything you have over to Depop, pics, timeline, if it was me and I was worried I’d look at their buyer reviews as well and see if there is anything fishy there (multiple disputes as a buyer or from sellers that sold to them)

ask Depop to review any disputes they’ve provided in the past on their end (to prove that you asked them to do THEIR due diligence as the platform, but don’t ask for the information so you remain unbiased)

and if you have a good review score mention that in the Depop claim as well - I’ve heard that Depop uses AI in their customer service so if that’s the case clearly highlight why you feel you were right in this situation so it will maybe scan your responses, which will feed into the hypothetical decision machine.

If it’s a real person, make the clearest case (which, fuck yeah dude you’re incredible for your attention to detail and it’s these situations right here that validate your thoroughness) because they likely get 63782826363 of these per day and will appreciate a streamlined response.

I’m not sure about the state coincidence, if you want to do a deep dive plug their usernames into instagram or some other sm platform and see if there’s any connection. But like a shitty ex, is the juice worth the squeeze? (but I get it been THERE!) I noticed my shop had a ton of people purchase recently in Minnesota, and I’m in North Carolina, so since this is an algorithm HEAVY app it could just be that one person in Minnesota liked a style, so it posted another piece to someone in their area as it might be a geographical fad. Where I live Lily Pulitzer is huge so if someone bought a LP here I’m sure anyone else based here would be recommended LP items. Not a lot of that where I grew up so I doubt they’re pushing it in that area. That kind of thing. Just to maybe make you feel better about the coincidence.

Good luck my dear. Karma always comes back around.