Help. Scammer bought my item and wants me to ship it out.

[Athletichunta]

As soon as he bought it he opened a no receipt claim with paypal and waited for me to ship it. If I ship it and get scammed will ebay reimburse me the funds. Say he says nothing was in the box?. How does this work. thanks. It's $1300.

Will I be covered if he says nothing was in the box. ect.

[GreenBean]

expand on this....

Are you saying he made the buy AND then filed INR immediatetly.? That's wrong. No item gets delivered stat.

claim is with paypal. ebay may not touch it.

What else have you done apart from post here? Any contact with buyer?

[haohigh]

i d suggest to contact ebay to at least avoid the buyer to leave you any negative feedback and not ship out the item, this is very abnormal and likely a scammer.

[unkown5454]

You ship it, it's gone forever. DO NOT SHIP.

Sort it out with PP, but do nothing else.

[Dmshark25]

Originally Posted by Athletichunta

As soon as he bought it he opened a no receipt claim with paypal and waited for me to ship it. If I ship it and get scammed will ebay reimburse me the funds. Say he says nothing was in the box?. How does this work. thanks. It's $1300.

Will I be covered if he says nothing was in the box. ect.

Very Strange situation, I don't get it , why would a scammer instantly after purchasing file a case.

Usually they would wait to see that postage was paid and tracking updated

Could be candidate for "Worlds Dumbest Criminals"

Definitely do not ship out

[BiN4RY]

Originally Posted by unkown5454

You ship it, it's gone forever. DO NOT SHIP.

Sort it out with PP, but do nothing else.

This. Issue a refund immediately, and contact Paypal if you think he's scamming you.

[Gamefreak]

if you ship it, INSURE with ADULT SIGNATURE required. MAKE sure paypal address is CONFIRMED

[MM78]

I wouldn't even bother shipping out the item, $1,300 is a lot of money.

[rsot]

1. When in doubt, don't ship out.

2. Don't sell something until you have money in hand.

3. Someone who files a case right away and you decide to ship? You think it's going to be easy to win? Nope

[Athletichunta]

Thanks for the advice. It looks liek the huge influx of new apple product scammers on ebay are using some sort of paypal glitch(Probably other things to). Everthing looks good until you click on details of the transaction on paypal. It said don't ship, payment has been canceled and you are no longer eligible for seller Protection for this transaction... but the transaction still completes and the money goes into your account. If you would have not clicked on the transaction everything looks normal on your ebay and paypal account and it looks like you can ship no problem. The low feedback and bad English tho is what set off the alarm bells for me tho. Also the fact it's getting harder and harder to sell new apple products without scammers buying.

So the good news is paypal rep said that sense he opened a case already in paypal and then closed it as resolved he is no longer is eligible for seller protection and if he contacts his bank that I'm still intelligible for seller protection.


I was given 3 options. Refund the money which I tried but because of the glitch didn't work on paypals side. Send the money directly or just keep the item and the $1300. So you can guess what I chose mwahaahaa.

I am not 100% on whats gonna happen but all looks good.

[unkown5454]

All you had to tell us was it's an Ap.ple product.

I've stopped numerous friends from getting scammed on EB with their Ap.ple products and just helped them sell it on Crai.gsL.ist.

All of the sca.mmers are the same. Bad English and making crazy demands through EB messages as soon as they complete the purchase.

[pr0wake]

ive noticed this happening a lot lately

if the name on the ebay account is different than the name on the paypal payment, its suspect.

AND, if the ADDRESSEE is different from those two, I know whats about to happen. SO- I don't ship it.

100% of the time I've noticed this, paypal opens an unauthorized charge case


if you want, you can try sca.mming the sc.ammers

[Athletichunta]

No one els finds it crazy paypal said I can keep the 3300 and not even ship the item. Nevermind... lol

Let me clarify tho. NEW apple products. Not used. and iphones no so much. We are talking the really expensive stuff $800+ and there are a few scammers in the $600 range but not very much. THIS APPLIES TO APPLE PRODUCTS ALONE REALLY. MOSTLY APPLE ANYWAY. the apple brand has alot of power

[thready]

Make sure you do what GameFreak says for any item valued over $750

[unkown5454]

Originally Posted by Athletichunta

the apple brand has alot of power

Thanks for the update. None of us here had any clue.

What is your point with new and used? It makes no difference.

[Athletichunta]

It makes a huge difference. I dunno why.

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by thready

Make sure you do what GameFreak says for any item valued over $750

I insure all items over $150. I even insure some lower value items as well.

No toerag buyer is taking my profit .......

[unkown5454]

Originally Posted by Athletichunta

It makes a huge difference. I dunno why.

In what sense? Used gets sca.mm.ed more or new?

[BigCJ]

Originally Posted by Athletichunta

It makes a huge difference. I dunno why.

Not really...
I had an Ipad 2 that my dog stepped on and caved in the back that I just wanted to get out of the way and bring my feedback score up...It sold 30 dollars below a used one...

Even DEAD apple products have high value.

[GreenBean]

@BigCJ


maybe they liked the dog's paw print on the casing?


APPLE items are popular.

The End.

[Gamefreak]

keep money is what i say, if they file claim refund accordingly.

i usually insure cheap items as low as $50 if its being shipped to an apartment or in florida to those forwarding companies.

[BigCJ]

Originally Posted by GreenBean

@BigCJ


maybe they liked the dog's paw print on the casing?


APPLE items are popular.

The End.

If it was just the paw print....I wouldn't have mind it...
But it was 130LBS worth of paw print that caved in the back