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Potentially fraudulent eBay purchase?
minirhyder
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I put up my old iPod touch on eBay last night. It's an auction with a Buy it Now option. Just now someone bought it with the Buy it Now option, even though the item had 0 bids.
The user just registered today, and obviously has no feedback.
I looked up the given address on USPS and this is what I get:
"The address you provided is not recognized by the US Postal Service as an address we serve. Mail sent to this address may be returned."
with it suggestion the same address with a different zip code. Though the address does seem to exist on Google Maps.
Not sure what to do here. I mean if he pays me I guess I have no choice but to send it? But this is incredibly odd and suspicious to me.
The user just registered today, and obviously has no feedback.
I looked up the given address on USPS and this is what I get:
"The address you provided is not recognized by the US Postal Service as an address we serve. Mail sent to this address may be returned."
with it suggestion the same address with a different zip code. Though the address does seem to exist on Google Maps.
Not sure what to do here. I mean if he pays me I guess I have no choice but to send it? But this is incredibly odd and suspicious to me.
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Edit: To expand on the scam bit, he can pay you via PayPal, you ship him the item, and he can claim he never received it since you will likely not be able to get a delivery confirmation on his address. PayPal will refund him the money if you can't prove he received it.
Case closed I guess.
Do I just report him to eBay at this point?
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I tend to be forgiving in giving the benefit of the doubt, but have you messaged this buyer to confirm the mailing address? I'd do due diligence before contacting eBay. This guy could have messed up his address, though I'd sway heavily to the "it's probably a scam" side. Do your side of things to resolve and then contact eBay.
I never had to have a request by paypal when I bought stuff, I simply put in a bid and if I won the item I clicked pay through paypal, and it was done in like 5 minutes. If I'd bought from you, you'd already have my money and me asking for a shipping number to track it and then scolding you for not having one as a business practice you should avoid, although to be fair I've bought stuff on ebay and only 1 time had to charge back a seller, but he was a dick about it so I didn't feel too bad introducing him to the U.C.C.
However this may be a verson of the advance-fee fraud.
This is the message I sent him:
He replied to this with the Nigeria crap. I don't ship outside of the US and this is stated on my shipping policy.
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This is actually a well known method of scamming an eBay seller. Notice how he wants a separate payment request? It's against eBay policy to circumvent the built-in payment method. Why does he want you to do this? So when you finally realize you've been screwed over, eBay can't do anything for you.
Scam, scam scam scam.
That's not always the case, I've bought things from the US before.
Dead giveaways usually are India, Africa, and Canada.
I'd avoid any of the third world countries/continents tbh. Especially Canada.
If it weren't for my fraudulent eBay transactions, I'd barely be able to heat my igloo.