Ebay - WTF?

Eddietop

Eddietop

Eddietop

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Hi all,

I listed my iPhone on eBay, and some guy won the auction last night.

I was a little worried at first because the guy who bought the item had private feedback, (could see that he had 18 positive feedback, just couldn't view the comment text). In the end thought, what the hell if he pays then fine.

Now eBay have just sent me an email saying the following;

We have removed these listings and will credit all fees to your account because it has come to our attention that the items were bought without the account owner's authorisation. We are now restoring the account to its owner.

Please be assured that there is no negative mark on your account because of this. We only removed your listing so that we could credit all of your Insertion and Final Value Fees and prevent any further problems arising such as Unpaid Item disputes or negative feedback.

Note: It may take up to ten days for all the Insertion and Final Value Fee credits to be shown on your account status page.

You are free to list the item again using the Sell Your Item form or other listing tools. Unfortunately the listing won't appear as an Unsold item in My eBay and we can't relist it for you. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.
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Needless to say i was a bit perplexed when i received this email. Does this mean the guy has had his account hacked or something?

The buyer is now messaging me asking for my address and phone number because he wants to collect the item from me in person.

Should i resell item on eBay, or give him my details? Don't really know what to do, if i resold it i don't think he can give me negative feedback because the auction was removed by eBay.

Anyone got any advice?

Cheers.
 
I've had it happen to me, with a laptop I was selling.

The most annoying part is that eBay deletes the auction completely, so you can't choose to just re-list it, you've got to go through the rigmoral of setting up the sale again.

Never did find out just why it happened.
 
Yeah it's rather annoying as i now have to remember the description i had and everything, also i wanted a quick sale. Guess if it goes on again ill stick a buy it now price in.

every time i use eBay to sell stuff like this occurs, its really dodgy.
 
Have you logged in to your ebay account to confirm that the email is genuine? I wouldn't deal with this guy outside ebay, especially if he wants to pay via anything other than cash. Re-list and forget about him.
 
This happened to me recently when I listed my iPod Nano on eBay. Got that message from ebay and the guy tried to contact me outside of ebay saying could I ship the item before the 28th and then again with an email saying why hadn't I shipped the item.

I also at the same time got some phising emails from "paypal" and "ebay"

It was an elaberate con but I am savvy enough not to fall for it and the fake emails stopped after a couple of weeks.

You need to re-list and check any emails you get from Paypal or eBay very carefully (I.e. look at the headers) and all should be well.
 
Yeah the email from eBay is legit, its in my eBay messages also.

The guy is offering to collect, but tbh the whole thing feels too risky. It's best to re-list now i guess, and ignore all emails from the buyer.
 
same thing happened to me but with my PSP. was a pain in the butt getting ebay to give me my insertion fees back into my paypal account.

i just relisted after that and sold to someone that was real.
 
Relist. You are essentially giving a theif your home address, which is never a good thing.

This has happened to me a few times, but this was years ago before all the schemes came in to put a stop to all this, so I had greater risk. It isn't worth it.
 
it could well be a **** up, but as stated not worth giving your address out or even meeting him somewhere, just relist and play it safe.
 
Is this thread serious? Fraudster hacks someone elses account and tries to buy item with it, then asks to collect in person and the op is actually considering going along with it, despite him being a known criminal?

How hard can it be to re list something as generic as an iphone? :confused:
 
Energize said:
Is this thread serious? Fraudster hacks someone elses account and tries to buy item with it, then asks to collect in person and the op is actually considering going along with it, despite him being a known criminal?

How hard can it be to re list something as generic as an iphone? :confused:
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Yes it is serious.
 
get the babylon round and have them nick him when he turns up, its identity theft, I lost an account on ebay thanks to some xxxx hacking my account and changing the password
 
He's asking for your details.
The guy has hacked someone elses ebay account, maybe he's looking for his next fraud victim. Maybe he's gonna break in and steal the phone. Maybe he's going to pay with conterfiet cash, stolen cash, dodgey checks whatever.

Just relist it.
 
I wouldn't go along with it, if he was low enough to hack someones account do you think he's an honest person? Would you want to associate with that type of person?
 
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