The "This ebayer just stinks of scam..." thread.

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So someone put a Best Offer on one of my items, with a value of £30.

After winning the item he starts a little convo:

Scammer said:
Hello, could you give me your PayPAl email so I could pay right to you account as I experience a dificulty in paying through Ebay. I have contacted the Ebay and they said it's a common thing recently...So they advised to do so. Also, I wanted to ask you to dospach them to italian address. Pls, confirm. In this case I will need to give you address and phone. Thanks.
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Me said:
Hi there, I will only accept payment through eBay and will only post to confirmed address; this is standard eBay procedure.

Thank you for your purchase.

Best regards.
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Scammer said:
THEN i won'tbe able to pay. It's not my desire to do so, but there are certain difficulties on Ebay with that, you may ask yourself! Manager told me it's ok to ask you the paypal email. I don't see the lproblem either here. I have already paid yesterday several item like that. And about the address, so I want these boots to be delivered to my sisters address in Italy as I bought them for her. Also don't see the problem as I choose which address I want the item to be dispached. So, pls, send it or the deal if OFFto my greatest sadness. Thanks.
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Me said:
It is not my responsibility to send anything to your sister. If you want to send something to your sister you are free to do it yourself. I will only post this to a confirmed UK address associated with your eBay and PayPal account as this item was listed on eBay UK.
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No reply after that.

Here's what I've gathered.

  • He has a fake London address set up on his account so he can bid on UK listings. Royal Mail has no record of this post code and it does not correlate with the road name.
  • He's using a Russian email provider.
  • His account is registered in Ukraine.
  • Wants me to post to Italy.
  • Wants to send payment outside of ebay.

Although Nigeria is not included in this situation, there are just far too many inconsistencies.

So I thought I'd just post my experience here and in the process create a thread for any future scam discussion associated with ebay.
 
I had a similar instance last week when I sold some broken iphone 4, the guy had about 4 feedback and asked for my paypal email so he could pay me, I told him to pay me via ebay and he did and that was the end of it, should I now be worried?
 
Hate it when they ask you once the bidding has ended and they won "can you send to this country ".- mate you should have asked me that before the bid ended??????? Such time wasters.
 
AshD93 said:
You think OP is bad, look at this. Was looking earlier and this was about to finish..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Iphone-4s...80826?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item3cccef6cfa

Though if you check his new feedback :p

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI...sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller
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I have to be honest it is a fair description... many people want boxes to sell items with for more... the shop i work at we regularly buy phone boxes as it ups the price we can sell handsets for. No reserve was set and description was plain, its the buyer at fault here 100%
 
AtreuS said:
I have to be honest it is a fair description... many people want boxes to sell items with for more... the shop i work at we regularly buy phone boxes as it ups the price we can sell handsets for. No reserve was set and description was plain, its the buyer at fault here 100%
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Nope, because the description also states that it has an 8mp camera, runs iOS etc
 
Cleeecooo said:
Nope, because the description also states that it has an 8mp camera, runs iOS etc
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Thats describing the writing on the box for people who need the right box. This kind of thing happens a lot and there IS a market for people buying phone boxes who need to know the exact item the box refers to.

It clearly states its a box both in the title and the description.

Of course if someone cannot read "Please note-Box only!!!!!" in huge red letters then they shouldnt be using ebay!
 
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Had a similar situation with a person with a fake British address, using an American email provider, claiming to live in Hawaii, requesting that I send the package to Nigeria, and requesting that I send before they pay.

After opening a case and resolving the problem with eBay (they got banned) I got my item re-listed for free as per eBay's terms regarding the situation, and the same scammer bought the item again, so I got them banned again, and sold the item elsewhere.

*edit* actually no that's a lie, it hasn't been sold at all. It's sitting here next to me... :mad:
 
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