This is a scam right?

chuckley

i snipe an auction that ended during the night.

I pay first thing this morning.

seller emails saying they put in the wrong email on 'all of my listings' and the email i paid to doesnt exist.

They say i need to pay manually via paypal through 'send money'.

I log in paypal which shows it as 'pending', so I cancel, but as its already in process it'l take a while to credit my paypal or bank acc?

I ask them to update their details and resend invoice but they say ebay doesnt let them? and i have to do it the way they said?

I repeat that ill pay once i see the funds back in my acc, so they say they'll do a second chance thing instead and goodbye. (LMAO)


Am I being over cautious or is this a scam?
I check their listings and there is none. Surely if they made a mistake on all listings they could've changed it before the listing i won ended?

soolin

Probably not a scam at all, just a blooming nuisance.

If a seller puts the wrong PayPal ID on the listing then any invoice will pick that ID up and cannot be changed so buyers have to make a direct payment.

However, whatever you decide to do you're right to want to see your cleared funds returned to you first.

RFW

You can ask the seller to send you a Paypal invoice from the correct account and include the Ebay item number, then it connects up again so you're covered should anything else go awry.

chuckley

RFW wrote: »

You can ask the seller to send you a Paypal invoice from the correct account and include the Ebay item number, then it connects up again so you're covered should anything else go awry.

That's what i told them, but they said ebay told them no.

I was like !!!!!!!!

That's when i got even more suspicious, coz they emailed back saying they can see i cancelled the paypal thing... which made me think they were masking an email of some sort... how else would they know if the acc doesn't exist?

soolin

chuckley wrote: »

That's what i told them, but they said ebay told them no.

I was like !!!!!!!!

That's when i got even more suspicious, coz they emailed back saying they can see i cancelled the paypal thing... which made me think they were masking an email of some sort... how else would they know if the acc doesn't exist?

Their eBay account has probably gone to an egg timer, so yes they will know you have cancelled.

I think you are seeing scams where you have just in fact got a confused seller.

yazzine

When I started on ebay afew months ago, even with all the helpful info. in this forum and from a member of family I still made a mess of it where paypal where concerned. Ebay automatically opened a payapl account to be updated later by me, however when receiving payment I had problems as I was unable to get into account or verify details and paypal suggested I ask buyer to claim back money.

Buyer was lovely as he did claim his money back and I resold item to him at the price he had won over a month ago. It took a long time for him to get his money back but he was lovely about it.

I new he had put in a claim as he had mentioned it in a message and asked if I would hold off reselling as he still wanted item. Paypal could not and would not confirm if he had been paid as I could not verify the details set up by Ebay.

Norfolk_Poppy

soolin wrote: »

Their eBay account has probably gone to an egg timer, so yes they will know you have cancelled.

I think you are seeing scams where you have just in fact got a confused seller.

A VERY confused seller I expect.

It happened to me. I used my mobile to put sales onto Ebay and it wasn't until the first item sold that I realised that my paypal account had.com rather than .co.uk

I couldn't access the money, Ebay told me the money hadn't been taken out of buyers accounts and I was to tell them to cancel and then resend. I couldn't actually tell them where to send it as Ebay doesn't allow messages to contain email addresses....so back to customer service....had to request their contact details and call them. I must have been lucky because they all seemed to believe me....think they had the awful measure of Ebay and Paypal.

Anyway, probably not a scam, possibly induced by Ebay's Americal infilling of.com on the mobile app.