Fishy bidders on for my ebay item..

debtfreeandlovingit_2

Hi,
I just sold an item on ebay. The highest bidder and the second highest bidder both look fishy to me. The winner has two different names mentioned and is in the US, although I stated that the item was to be posted to the UK only. His email address is really long and ends in spambox.us. The second highest bidder also has zero feedback. I stated that I only accept PayPal but what should I do? Send my invoice or something else? I am fairly new to Ebay so am not too sure what is the correct action to take. The item sold for £32 and the highest "genuine" bid, as far as I can tell was £15.

Thanks in advance

steviebabes

All you can do is send an invoice with postage (Airsure is fully trackable) and if they pay by paypal you should be ok. Mention payment within 3 days or item will be relisted.

Funkyfarmgirl

I'm not an ebay expert, they'll be here soon, but certainly i'd say do NOT send anything without a confirmed paypal address, and do not send it to any other address bar that one, do not send anything outside the UK, and send it recorded/special delivery.

steviebabes

Just looked up spambox.us it's very strange, a sort of email address that expires after a given time!

debtfreeandlovingit_2

Thanks guys - that's very helpful. And yes spambox.us seems very odd and i can't really understand why a genuine person would use that.

debtfreeandlovingit_2

Things got even stranger. The high bidder made a payment for over 10 times the amount to my PayPal account, saying that the money would hit my account once I had sent a postage reference number! Fortunately I am a linguist and picked up a spelling error in the "PayPal" correspondence and also some unnatural English, which confirmed to me this was fake. Ebay agreed and told me this person had taken over someone else's account and that they were basically going to deal with him.

Sad that these people can't find anything better to do! They seem to target less experienced Ebayers like me hoping for people to fall for it. Not this time matey!

frivolous_fay

OP, time to change your buyer requirements so this can't happen again.

Set them so that people with low feedback and no credit card on file can't bid.

debtfreeandlovingit_2

Have done! Thanks!:beer:

ormus

if you stated that item is to be posted within the uk only, then stick to it.
there are enough nobheads in the uk, without attracting them from all over the world.

powertron

Dont send im anything. Relist item.

If you stated uk only he should not have bid.

Give him a NPB strike in 14 days times and block him from future auctions.

[Deleted User]

ormus wrote: »

if you stated that item is to be posted within the uk only, then stick to it.
there are enough nobheads in the uk, without attracting them from all over the world.

That made me laugh out loud. Tis true plenty of UK based nobheads