Selling 4790k on eBay advice

RLC · 1 Aug 2021 at 19:44

I've sold an i7 4790k on eBay for about £90. The buyer has a had an account since 2013 but only has 8 feedback and that's all "more than one year ago". A bit more poking shows they last bought on eBay "over 5 years" ago.

They've given their address to what looks like a housing development in Milton Keynes that is still being built.

What would you do?

Send it and risk it gets returned as "faulty" and I end up with a carboard box and they get a free 4790k?

Cancel the sale and wait for another "80% off selling fees"?

or a third option?

dlockers · 1 Aug 2021 at 19:50

The first rule of scamming is to send it to an address where you can collect it. If the housing developing is "that much under development", how would he get it?

Send it

Psycho Sonny · 1 Aug 2021 at 19:56

dLockers said:
The first rule of scamming is to send it to an address where you can collect it. If the housing developing is "that much under development", how would he get it?

Send it

He's the guy at reception in charge of deliveries at the site

RLC · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:07

Psycho Sonny said:
He's the guy at reception in charge of deliveries at the site

This is the worry. Or they wait outside and intercept the postie.

Either way if they get it, declare it faulty and send an empty box back via signed for delivery then eBay will give them the money back and what can I do?

dlockers · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:13

RLC said:
This is the worry. Or they wait outside and intercept the postie.

Either way if they get it, declare it faulty and send an empty box back via signed for delivery then eBay will give them the money back and what can I do?

Sounds like eBay is too serios a business for you. Put it on Gumtree, collection only, and show the person collecting that it works.

Columbo · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:15

Cancel it and sell to CEX, FB or Gumtree or something. Deal in cash only when selling to an individual.
I've sold thousands of things on Ebay without a single issue until recently when I fell victim to the seller sending back a different item to the one I sent and sided with the buyer when I raised a case.

Scamming their is now absolutely rampant, their resolution process sides with scammers 99% of the time and recent changes on payments is basically transaction cancer for sellers. I wont be touching that toxic cesspit of a website ever again thats for sure.

Hunterlit · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:18

RLC said:
This is the worry. Or they wait outside and intercept the postie.

Either way if they get it, declare it faulty and send an empty box back via signed for delivery then eBay will give them the money back and what can I do?

Same thing happened to me however it was a different item. What you can do is not use ebay full of crooks and the biggest ones in the game are ebay.

Uther · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:20

Just not worth the risk these days unfortunately.

RLC · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:28

That's what I was starting to think. If you have a look on the eBay seller forum it is full of posts about this kind of scam and eBay siding with the buyer. I've had no real issues in the past but it sound's like it's getting worse.

Malevolence · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:43

Asking for advice after the fact. Why do people do this? Surely the sensible thing is to ask for advice before selling it on eBay.

RLC · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:47

Malevolence said:
Asking for advice after the fact. Why do people do this? Surely the sensible thing is to ask for advice before selling it on eBay.

If the person was an active user and had a decent feedback profile I'd send it. I also sold a motherboard to someone has lots of recent feedback and it's already parcelled up and ready to go tomorrow morning.

Vanilla · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:47

I don't think it's that bad, I barely use eBay any more and if you saw my account it would be similar. Many years since I last used it

Reality|Bites · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:52

I think if he was going to scam anyone it would be for something a lot newer than a 4790 huh?

RLC · 1 Aug 2021 at 21:44

Reality|Bites said:
I think if he was going to scam anyone it would be for something a lot newer than a 4790 huh?

That's a very fair point tbh.

Malevolence · 1 Aug 2021 at 21:47

Reality|Bites said:
I think if he was going to scam anyone it would be for something a lot newer than a 4790 huh?

Not really, You can flog a rotten old pair of trainers for a tenner on eBay and you'll still get scum trying to scam you.

Reality|Bites · 1 Aug 2021 at 22:03

Yeah but those people are perverts lol, I've seen them listed as "Fetish" before

new boy · 2 Aug 2021 at 08:40

If you send it tracked to the address provided then there is no reason why you will be left out of pocket imo

If you send it to a different address than the one eBay provides, you are opening yourself up to trouble.

ED209 · 2 Aug 2021 at 11:29

How did the person pay?

I haven't used ebay\paypal for quite some time but don't you have to send the item to the address on their paypal\Ebay account otherwise your not covered?

Biz.Kid09 · 2 Aug 2021 at 11:35

Sell it to someone local and have the cash in your hand. Why bother with the aggro of listing on ebay.

Blackjack Davy · 2 Aug 2021 at 14:55

Its a what, 10 year old chip? The chances of getting scammed are not enough to be worried about honestly. If it bothers you that much you should have taken it to CEX.