buyer from USA wants me to post to Nigeria

nightswimmer

jasmineswhiskers wrote:

So if this happens how do you get around not sending it. Surely it looks like the buyer has paid and fulfilled their side.

You start a Unpaid Item Dispute and state that the buyer wanted the item shipped to an unverified address or a country that you do no ship to (can't remember exactly how the options are worded right now).

I guess if they have paid with PayPal you could also refund that payment, but personally I would just leave it and see if you hear from PayPal.

frivolous_fay

Info on what to look out for, their MO, and what to do:

http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1200086741&tstart=0&mod=1170976002938

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Avoriaz

Michele, you should consider yourself lucky.

Firstly you have rightly identified this as an almost certain scam and secondly at least the scammer didn’t spoil your auction as there were no other bidders.

Follow the above advice and hopefully you will get your FVF back.

If you relist it and then successfully sell it there is a way to get your original listing fees back too. I’m not certain of the details so hopefully someone else will advise on that. I think all you need to do is relist it within a certain timeframe but there may be other things you have to do..

Next time, list it as UK delivery only and specifically mention that you will not ship overseas under any circumstances. Maybe that will deter the scammers.

Good luck.

nightswimmer

Avoriaz wrote:

If you relist it and then successfully sell it there is a way to get your original listing fees back too. I’m not certain of the details so hopefully someone else will advise on that. I think all you need to do is relist it within a certain timeframe but there may be other things you have to do..

This happens automatically, so long as you were awarded your FVFs back and you relist within 90 days of when the original item was sold (plus meeting a few other criteria). More details can be found here:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/questions/free-relist.html

5thElement_2

100% scam and an old one at that. First thing they teach in scam school lol

michelefauk

Thanks for your help. I had a mail from Ebay to say that someone had used another buyers ID and they had cancelled everything their end and will refund the fees. Thanks goodness. My daughter is gutted though as it was her phone, she had already planned what to do with the money!