Sold Phone - "please send to my son in..."

jr666

NIGERIA!!

So those magic words have just appeared in an email i recieved from my buyer.

Its obviously a scam, he has no feedback and only registered yesterday.

Can you please give me a step by step procedure as to what to do now.

Kimberley

Tell him to ****** get lost and offer it to another bidder.

Rubber_Duck_4

You can contact ebay. They are aware of this type of fraud and scam and they will deal with the buyer so you won't get any negative feedback. I always tend to add " I will not post internationally especially Nigeria" onto my auctions this has dettered these scams.... so far.

My advice... contact ebay asap and forward on any emails as proof and they should sort it. They did for me when it happened on my first mobile phone sale.

Good luck

Agutka

File an NPB something about countries I don't ship to - should let you do it there and then rather than wait seven days. Then re-list and block that bidder. Just in case. Good luck. There is no point talking to the buyer, so just send a curt email and ignore.

hjb123

Dont do it!! Check the address that it is coming up as that you should send it to - you know the one that it says when you paypal confirmation that they have paid it normally has an adress at the bottom - probably is an unconfirmed one and one that is totally fake!

Forward it onto ebay/paypal and see what they say - better to do this than to get conned

leics_poshie

jr666 wrote:

NIGERIA!!

So those magic words have just appeared in an email i recieved from my buyer.

Its obviously a scam, he has no feedback and only registered yesterday.

Can you please give me a step by step procedure as to what to do now.

Just tell him you are ot interested report him to ebay and offer it now to then losing bidder with the highest price, these people are so annoying and the sooner ebay finds a way to get rid of them the better, I had the same problem a few weeks ago, next time you list an item like a phone on ebay ask bidders to email you first if they have a 10 or less feedback

OllieLong

If it is possible instead of relisting you could offer it to the second highest bidder.

monkeyspanner

Same issue on this thread.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=147253

jr666

He joined on 13th feb and is now, surprise surprise, NARU'd

motorguy

Agutka wrote:

File an NPB something about countries I don't ship to - should let you do it there and then rather than wait seven days. Then re-list and block that bidder. Just in case. Good luck. There is no point talking to the buyer, so just send a curt email and ignore.

you probably won't get the option in the reasons for raising a NPB as the buyer IS in a country you will ship to, just that he wants you to post it elsewhere....

Thus, you will have to wait 7 days raise a NPB, then wait another 7 days, as scammers never bother with disputing these, THEN close the dispute and NEG him.

Well, thats what happened me in the same situation...

motorguy

jr666 wrote:

He joined on 13th feb and is now, surprise surprise, NARU'd

you might be able to get your fees back early then!