canadian buyer wants parcel to go to UK address on mobile

smashed

Hi.

I put a new mobile up for sale, but have received the following message from a Canadian..

Hi! If I win this item, will you ship it to my friend in the UK (birthday gift even though I am in canada and I pay for it? I would like to surprise him. Thank you

The strange thing is that he is registered at ebay.ca and has been for 6 years, with a 48 positive feedback. Perhaps it’s a hacked account?

Also, can you please advise how I go about blocking such bidders? Im sure I ticked the UK only box, but I also hear about these low feedback blocks, and blocking people without a verified address or credit card etc.
I have looked but cant see what else I can do besides the UK only option.

Thanks

frivolous_fay

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerBlockPreferences

Scroll to the bottom.

pinkpauline34

This sounds like a guy that tried it with me when I was selling a mobile! He too said he was in Canada but wanted me to post it to his UK friend as a surprise. I steered well clear.

zappahey

Hmmm, I'm starting to think I may be a scammer.

I've bought an item on ebay.ca and I've asked to have it shipped to a friend in Ottawa. The seller did but it seems to have gone missing in transit and I've had to instigate a Paypal dispute. That seems to tick a few scammer boxes. Ho hum!

smashed

Cheers for the help people
Not sure where the thanks boxes went.

In the end I havent ticked the credit card box tho, just most of the others.
I mean, I pay mine out my bank, not via my card, so I would be ruling people such as myself out.

soolin

smashed wrote:

In the end I havent ticked the credit card box tho, just most of the others.
I mean, I pay mine out my bank, not via my card, so I would be ruling people such as myself out.

I'm not quite sure I follow?

If you tick the I accept paypal box then you accept all and any form of paypal payment be it via a credit card or bank payment. Ticking the I accept credit cards is a different matter altogether and usually is only used by traders with a merchant account that can take a direct CC payment without going through paypal.

Setting your preferences to exclude bidders who do not have a credit card on file is a completely different thing. It means that they registered with just a bank account, it doesn't mean that they will necessarily use that bank acocunt to fund payments though. The seller preference to exclude people without a credit card will exclude a lot of people who just don't want their credit card details on ebay, so like you I have not opted to tick that in my seller preferences.

Soo

smashed

Sorry soo

I wasnt explaining myself well, in either the title or response. (At work)

I did indeed mean that I chose not to exclude people who hadnt given credit card details, as that will just exclude a lot of genuine bidders.