Of course don't buy it. Why would you send a bank transfer payment which can't be reversed?
Don;t need gut feelings for this. An obvious scam.
eBay and phones
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Of course don't buy it. Why would you send a bank transfer payment which can't be reversed?
Don;t need gut feelings for this. An obvious scam.
Now I know my feedback is only small...Just 6 but I've had a bid from someone with 0 feedback, I'm a bit dubious about it. I don't want to be left high and dry.
Whats the best plan of action?
I know we've all to start somewhere, but still...
Whats the best plan of action?
I know we've all to start somewhere, but still...
Now I know my feedback is only small...Just 6 but I've had a bid from someone with 0 feedback, I'm a bit dubious about it. I don't want to be left high and dry.
Whats the best plan of action?
I know we've all to start somewhere, but still...
If you want to be very careful. Cancel the bid, put in your listing that bidders with feedback below 5 should contact you before bidding. Then get them to give you a ring. Should filter out the nigerian scammers, as it's a bit of effort.
This is why I always use Buy-it-nows. If a zero feedback person bids, they have 24hrs to give me a payment (which isn't a fake paypal email). Otherwise relist and claim back fees.
Good idea.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/ebayadvsearch/
Down the left you can get contact information. Should be able to get a telephone number. If its fake, cancel the bid.
Aaah but then it forwards mine on
Well the buyer could have done what you are doing anyway.
But hasn't...I'll leave it for now but cheers for the link, I'm sure I'll come back to it.
That link did come in handy as he's been linked to buying something before but no feedback was left.
Not a good sign. You probably know that sellers can't leave negative or neutral feedback. It's positive or nothing.
Interesting. Never seen that filter before. Must be new.
Seems to be what you're after.
Are you sure it's not a block simply on someone buying loads of your items?
To follow up on this, it seems the seller has received positive feedback on the bold 9700, but on a different listing which kept identities private.
37 were sold with prices as low as £150. I hope that none of them paid using bank transfer, even if the seller does have the phones. Think about how tempted he/she may be to not post the ones for which payment was via BT, as its a lot of money.
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I had this back from eBay today, so glad I didn't pay and feel sorry for the 37 people that might have!
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