Does this look like a scam or am I just paranoid?
I won an auction from someone who had 5 feedback and registered for 3 weeks on ebay. I sent the payment after auction to the address on the invoice.
The payment remained uncliamed for three days, and I never heard anything from the seller.
So I wrote and said either claim the money , send me my item or I cancel the payment... No response...
So today I get this email from the seller :
Please no worries, you have to provide to seller a space, this is called handling time, I mention this on the listing description.
ebay is my part time job, I am not 100% pending about internet commerce, this is not company or corp, I am regular or eventually seller.
thank you for cooperate.
I see that I got a payment from you in paypal and is pending for accepting. Now my paypal account require to be update to handle credit cards payments.
could you please give a little time to call paypal and ask for this upgrade? thank you!
So I wrote back , explained how to accept the payment and upgrade to a premier account etc...
Then I get this email From a TOTALLY different email address than the sellers original : (NOT from Paypal)
Hello ********,
Your Payment was Returned
This email is to let you know that ******* has returned your payment of
$1033.84 USD. This means that the transaction is not complete and the funds have
not been transferred to the recipient.
There are many reasons why your recipient may have chosen not to accept your
payment. For example, if you paid with a credit card, they may have declined the
payment because their account can only accept funds from PayPal balances or bank
accounts.
Your funds will be returned to their original source. We encourage you to
contact the recipient directly to find out what type of PayPal payment would be
acceptable.
Sincerely,
PayPal
I went to my Paypal account and the seller had in fact denied the payment, but I then got another email from the seller on her original email:
I talked to PayPal and they explained me that my account do not hold or support Credit Card Payments becuase is Personal Account and I declined your payment.
But please send your paypal payment again to: ***********@gmail.com(use paypal "Send Money" Tab) that account will accept CC payments, thank you.
Please apologize the inconvenience caused, if is difficult to you to follow the instruction above I will send you a PayPal Request Payment to make easier your payment, just let me know. Thank you very much again!
So I sent it ... And Still I have heard nothing ..after three days.
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