eBay con?

[sussexlad]

In his email to you on the first page he has signed it 'joe' but on his address its manuel.

That for me is enough to make me suspicious, but i always am about things like this. I would try to speak to him and the shipping agent, and make sure you are there when the its picked up.

I think you are right to have doubts, £800 is alot of cash to be flippant about and be all trusty and pally with a guy you have never met living hundreds of miles away.

[mikecotterill]

In his email to you on the first page he has signed it 'joe' but on his address its manuel.

That for me is enough to make me suspicious, but i always am about things like this. I would try to speak to him and the shipping agent, and make sure you are there when the its picked up.

I think you are right to have doubts, £800 is alot of cash to be flippant about and be all trusty and pally with a guy you have never met living hundreds of miles away.

 

Never even noticed that mate, I've emailed him for a number to ring him on, so I'll see if he comes up with one

[treequip]

In his email to you on the first page he has signed it 'joe' but on his address its manuel.

That for me is enough to make me suspicious, but i always am about things like this. I would try to speak to him and the shipping agent, and make sure you are there when the its picked up.

I think you are right to have doubts, £800 is alot of cash to be flippant about and be all trusty and pally with a guy you have never met living hundreds of miles away.

 

I just sold a bunch of stuff on ebay for a mate, his name is Gary and mine is Andy

[sussexlad]

I just sold a bunch of stuff on ebay for a mate, his name is Gary and mine is Andy

 

i just bought some stuff on ebay, i contacted the seller as adam and got it posted to adam, not manuel.

not saying this guys a con man, but £800 is a lot of money, so why not be cautious?

[Pedroski]

Mike, how about you call the freight forwarder so you know who you're speaking to, and confirm if they are expecting the vehicle? Looks like it's Alymed Freight Alymed - Freight Forwarders in Northampton NN5 5JR - 192.com

[Mortimer Firewood]

Yep I've bought stuff from overseas, never bought a car from overseas though, have you?

 

It doesn't matter if he's covered the fees or not does it, if it's a con he'll get them back anyway!

 

You do realise eBay charge for selling right? So as well as the listing fee and the final value fee which is about 45 quid all in, I'm hardly selling stuff for free!

 

Read up on sellers on eBay that have had problems and lost out. Then read up on the bank transfer scam that goes on and you may get an idea why I'm apprehensive about losing my money/car

 

Yes sold an Audi s4 through e bay by p pal and bank transfer to a over seas buyer never worried me once but paid half by p pal and rest in to my bank when guy was here to pick it up. If p pal had tried to cancel it i would close my ac and let them take it to court. Once that money is in your bank its yours no court in the land would make you pay it if the vehical was not received back. If your not very confident in e bay why not stipulate cash on collection and no over seas bidders saves a lot of hassle for all party's:001_smile:

[morten]

I definitely wil be blocking the, next time.

 

Just out of interest: How much less was the highest bid from the UK? Are you willing to forego that amount, just because you are afraid of dealing with a foreigner?

 

A UK buyer can be equally deceitful.

 

In any case, if a dispute is raised, the buyer will have to return the goods (your car) to the place where it was accepted by the buyer (or his representative - the shipping company), which happens to be at your doorstep. I don't see that happening. But then again, I am one of those foreigners myself

[WorcsWuss]

Mike, chill!

We listed our old office copier on ebay a little while ago, or my boss did anyway, forgetting the 'usual ebay t's & c's' and it ended up being bought by a Nigerian 200 miles away in London... Here we go we thought...

The bloke could barely speak a word of English, hadn't a clue where Ludlow was, asked if we could deliver, all that jazz.

About to cancel the sale and the money appears in Paypay, then we get an email saying a courier will collect it and could we put it on a pallet for him?

We duly obliged, expecting the courier to not turn up, but lo and behold, he did, and off it went.

We were astounded!

 

But it gets better!

 

A couple of days later we got a really nice email in broken English from the guy, thanking us for all the help, complimenting us on the packaging and saying it was so good he didn't even unwrap it like he normally does, but sent it straight on to Nigeria.

 

And did we know of any vans he could buy!

 

So seriously Mike, you're well protected. Get a collection note from the transport company and you'll be fine. The majority of the world are still straight up folks despite what the media would have us believe...

[mistahbenn]

Mike you paranoid git.

Edited July 8, 2012 by mistahbenn

[Marko]

As a buyer you were at risk but now ebay has gone too far the other way. They are struggling for sellers thats why everything is free list every few weeks.

 

We got caught (once was enough) with the paypal small print - you have to use a tracked delivery service. It is a very very simple scam and whilst paypal understand fully how you have been ripped off they will do nothing at all and take your money and refund it to the buyer. Shrewd 'buyers' presently have a licence to buy at will (the wrong delivery methods are still options on the ebay listing) and, if the goods are delivered in the 'wrong' manner can claim their money back through Paypal.

 

I would also add that the scammer is fully able to email you to take the p155 as, in the court of Paypal, emails are not accepted as evidence.

 

Only £45 pounds down but extremely frustrating and... you can't claim anything back from the Post Office as they have done what they were paid to do.