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10 April 2019, 08:17 AM | #1 |
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eBay Scam
I sold a watch on eBay today. The buyer paid by PayPal and I had some spare time so I shipped it early afternoon. When I got home I had a message from an eBay member asking me to ship to a different address. Something seemed strange so I looked more closely. The eBay name wasn’t the same as the buyer, and the message had a little broken English. I phoned eBay and got pretty much straight through and explained what had happened. The lady I spoke to was concerned and looked into the situation. To cut a long story short she said that eBay had already identified a problem and blocked the scammer. Asked how they had emailed me she said they use the contact seller off the listing and not my email address.
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10 April 2019, 08:23 AM | #2 |
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Good information!
Lot’s of scammers on eBay looking for Rolex watches. You handled it perfect. |
10 April 2019, 08:33 AM | #3 |
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Wow, close call. Always ship to the Paypal verified address on eBay. Scammers seem to be everywhere these days.
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10 April 2019, 09:19 AM | #4 |
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I have now heard of this very same tactic from a couple of people now. eBay is a cesspool
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10 April 2019, 09:22 AM | #5 |
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So you already sent the watch out??? Do you think you will get it back and did you ever get any money from PayPal?
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10 April 2019, 11:52 AM | #6 |
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I have seen this on our site 2 or 3 times.
Luckily. so far we never got caught, but its been close. ONLY ship to the verified email address Thanks your post Adam
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10 April 2019, 12:49 PM | #7 |
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ebay just full if scammer, fraud and cheap Chinese products platform now.
I had scammed from buyer, who is changed my watch with the fake watch and return it back to me. I could not proof anything. eBay FULL OF SCAMMERS !!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
10 April 2019, 07:09 PM | #8 |
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