Ebay fraud

Vengance · 22 Apr 2008 at 08:07

Nigeria yay..
So i listed a phone, got a bid from nigeria. (obviously not going to send it, duh).
The question is, will ebay expect me to pay again to relist the item as this is an obviously fraudulent bid?

Third Opinion · 22 Apr 2008 at 08:09

Can't you just cancel the bid?

Caged · 22 Apr 2008 at 08:13

They normally will as they count the listing as an advert and in that sense you've gotten what you paid for. However, this has happened a few times to me (despite blocking bids from people outside the UK apparantly, doesn't really count when the bidders are using hacked accounts) and I've always kicked up a fuss with eBay and never paid the fees on an auction that was won by a hacked account/Nigerian so far.

Vengance · 22 Apr 2008 at 08:13

unfortunately it had a buy it now price, which they jumped on

Caged · 22 Apr 2008 at 08:14

Do you block bidders from outside areas you don't post to?

Oh, and prepare for emails from the 'FBI' saying "you is scammer"

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stoofa · 22 Apr 2008 at 11:53

Mobile phones is the one thing I will not get involved with on EBay - far too much hassle.
Contact EBay - they should sort the problem out for you.
Also in future make sure you only accept bids from people in the UK - saves a ot of messing about.

shauncr91 · 22 Apr 2008 at 12:04

As said above, just only accept buyers from UK.

Energize · 22 Apr 2008 at 13:33

Send anthrax to them instead.

Ripper · 26 Apr 2008 at 19:50

ignore

yozzer2001 · 26 Apr 2008 at 21:13

yes but shill bidding is not right now is it

Ripper · 26 Apr 2008 at 21:17

Nope, but ebay's new search thing is making me paranoid about my £200 item selling for 99p

Ignore anyway, forget I said anything

James07 · 26 Apr 2008 at 23:00

Caged said:
Oh, and prepare for emails from the 'FBI' saying "you is scammer" .

Is that what they do lol!!