eBay help - possible fruad....

@if ®afiq

@if ®afiq

@if ®afiq

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A friend of mine advertsied her laptop a couple of days ago - it's nothing special....but the end bid finished at a crazy £4600!

The bidder is more than suspect - joined eBay two days ago - and has just paid the money into her account.

What are her options? I was thinking to withdraw the money straight away and send the laptop once the money has cleared into her account...but what if it is fraudulent - can the money be taken back from her bank account????

TIA :)
 
She should be wary if the money was paid in by PayPal. There have been numerous cases of people paying up then using paypals' complaints system to automatically pull money back.
 
To save the hassle of what will definately happen in the very near future, I would just nip the situation in the bud right now and consider the transaction as void. Don't even accept the payment.
 
If its Paypal your account will just go into negative and will withdraw the money from your attatched account if a claim is made.

Give Ebay an email.

Ask them to check the account etc
 
@if ®afiq said:
A friend of mine advertsied her laptop a couple of days ago - it's nothing special....but the end bid finished at a crazy £4600!

The bidder is more than suspect - joined eBay two days ago - and has just paid the money into her account.

What are her options? I was thinking to withdraw the money straight away and send the laptop once the money has cleared into her account...but what if it is fraudulent - can the money be taken back from her bank account????

TIA :)
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Could you just ask her to send me the laptop asap, as I am leaving the country soon to go back to Lagos.

Cheers
 
you can either

withdraw the money, and send the laptop when its in your bank, if it later does become fraudulant and paypal take back the money from your account so your account is in negative you just leave it at that, ignore any emails/laters from paypal asking for you to put your account into postivie and never use paypal again and you keep the money

or

refund the buyer making up a story and re-list it and get how much its worth and make sure only a trusted buyer wins it.
 
Chrisss said:
Withdraw the money asap and let it clear before sending off the laptop.
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that won't help , if it turns out to be fraudulent Paypal will reverse the transaction and then persue payment
 
A2Z said:
you can either

withdraw the money, and send the laptop when its in your bank, if it later does become fraudulant and paypal take back the money from your account so your account is in negative you just leave it at that, ignore any emails/laters from paypal asking for you to put your account into postivie and never use paypal again and you keep the money

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and then Paypal pass the debt to a recovery company
 
Thanks for the replies - I've told her to report them all to eBay and PayPal and not to accept any payments.

Some dude from South Africa is claiming that he has already made payment!
 
Rotty said:
and then Paypal pass the debt to a recovery company
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and then that company send out empty threat letters and phonecalls, bottom line being you dont have to pay them anything, and they know it
 
A2Z said:
and then that company send out empty threat letters and phonecalls, bottom line being you dont have to pay them anything, and they know it
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I'm fairly (but not definately) sure that this is covered in Paypal's T&Cs, and the user has agreed to those terms by using the service.
 
Happens all the time.
Don't send anything , relist the item and don't reply to their e-mails, all a waste of time.

I usually just e-mail them "Do you think I'm ******* stupid?"
 
daveyj27 said:
I'm fairly (but not definately) sure that this is covered in Paypal's T&Cs, and the user has agreed to those terms by using the service.
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I've heard lots of dodgy stories about paypal, they really are cowboys. Their T&C is somet like 24 A4 pages long, I wouldn't be suprised if after accepting them you've signed away your house.
 
Violent-J said:
I've heard lots of dodgy stories about paypal, they really are cowboys. Their T&C is somet like 24 A4 pages long, I wouldn't be suprised if after accepting them you've signed away your house.
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PayPal aren't cowboys, if you know what you're doing you won't lose out on any money. Just a bit tricky to get the hang of it all to start off with I guess
 
OoOverclockaoO said:
PayPal aren't cowboys, if you know what you're doing you won't lose out on any money. Just a bit tricky to get the hang of it all to start off with I guess
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Negatory, they almost always rule in favour of the client rather than the seller. Someone bought a wireless keyboard and mouse off ebay from me and paid with paypal before I went on holiday, they sent me the payment and I posted it to them. I get back off holiday and check my paypal account and the person has requested his money back saying they didn't arrive, without even asking my side of the story paypal they had refunded him the money even thought I still had the recorded delivery reference number etc.
 
Rotty said:
that won't help , if it turns out to be fraudulent Paypal will reverse the transaction and then persue payment
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Once the money has cleared, Paypal cannot then reverse the transaction.

They would have to contact a debt collector.
 
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