Escrow Refunds

[hakunamatataH2O]

My wallet address changes after each transaction, if i am to get a refund from escrow how does it go back to my wallet? Does each of my old receiving addresses still route the refund back to my wallet? Please help as its been nearly a week now since my refund was supposed to have been sent-yet nothing has been received. Appreciate the knowledge/ direction of anyone that may be able to shed some light on the matter.

[bob123]

Your wallet generates a new receiving address for each transaction.

It still contains ALL created private-/public- keypairs. You can receive funds as often as you want to the same address (even if it is not recommended privacy-wise).

The fact, that you didn't receive your 'refund' yet, is that either (1) your wallet is not synced/connected or (2) the transaction hasn't been broadcasted yet.

Check your address in a block explorer (e.g. https://blockchair.com/ or https://www.blockchain.com/).

[Abdussamad]

My wallet address changes after each transaction, if i am to get a refund from escrow how does it go back to my wallet? Does each of my old receiving addresses still route the refund back to my wallet? Please help as its been nearly a week now since my refund was supposed to have been sent-yet nothing has been received. Appreciate the knowledge/ direction of anyone that may be able to shed some light on the matter.

To get a refund provide the sender with another address from the receive tab. That's how bitcoin works. You can't guarantee that the "from" address  of a transaction belongs to the sender so anyone who's sending money back to it is doing things incorrectly.

Having said that if they did send the refund to one of your old addresses you would still have received it. Most likely they didn't send any refund.

What version of electrum are you using? you can find out the version number from the window title or help > about.

[hakunamatataH2O]

Im using version 3.2.3. Under the receive tab am I able to request the amount of my refund back from the escrow wallet? Or is it honestly just in the hands of the other party? The marketplace I was using had notated the transaction as being refunded but I advised them it hadnt actually came back to my wallet. After searching the escrow wallet/ transaction via https://blockexplorer.com I saw the funds still in the wallet. I believe my wallet is synced/connected as I have the green circle per my network connection and I've always successfully been able to purchase coins/ spend them. Both of your direction and assistance is greatly appreciated it!!

[TryNinja]

I saw the funds still in the wallet

Ask them for the transaction id of the alleged refund.

If they really sent the coins back to the address of origin (your address), then you should see it in your wallet.

[Abdussamad]

Im using version 3.2.3. Under the receive tab am I able to request the amount of my refund back from the escrow wallet? Or is it honestly just in the hands of the other party?

To send bitcoin to someone you need an address from their wallet. The recipient needs to go get an address from their wallet and communicate that to the sender. The receive tab is just a way to get an address from your wallet. It can't communicate with your marketplace or any other place. You have to do that. You just copy the address it gives you and communicate that to the marketplace operators to send you the refund.

Now my guess is that the marketplace has its own wallet for each user on its site and the refund was sent to that wallet. So the refund is in your account with the marketplace and you now need to use the withdraw function of their website to withdraw the funds to the address you got from the electrum receive tab.