Listed two guitars on eBay this morning once the £1 fee offer kicked in. Despite saying cash on collection only, and being very clear that I won’t post, the same person buys both guitars and pays in full with PayPal.
I ask him to call me as I need to tell him that I won’t accept PayPal for collection. He doesn’t call after a few hours so I refund both payments by PayPal and think I’ll give him a few more hours to make contact. He’s clearly a guitar trader and has 100% positive feedback so I think I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and give him chance to contact me.
12 hours later and still nothing - despite having found time to change his eBay user name since buying my guitars and now, he’s not bothered to call or reply to my eBay messages.
So something doesn’t smell right, but what’s the scam here if it is one?! The high volume positive feedback doesn’t scream scam to me but the situation is very odd. I’m annoyed at the wasted time and now have to either faff about cancelling and relisting and risk losing what might be completely genuine sales or do nothing and wait it out.
Weirdly he’s also selling the same guitar as he bought from me for a crazy high price. It crossed my mind that he bought mine just to remove ‘competition’, knowing he’d ultimately get refunded, but when I say that to myself I think I sound like a crazy person!
I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he’d just been busy but sorry, if you’ve been on to eBay to change your username then you’ve clearly read my messages and seen your refunded payments and you’re just ignoring me.
All very odd. Small wonder I try to sell on here and despise going to eBay
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I was happy to give him the benefit of the doubt of an honest mistake but the name change thing is proper weird.
Not so crazy. Some of these eBay sellers play pretty dirty. Changing his user name is sus too. I would bar him from your auctions and then relist.
and yet he hasn’t...
That alone is odd.
What could possibly go wrong?
Theres a chap on eBay who does this sort of thing all the time. Have a look at the buyers previous user names - it’s probably the same bloke.
neither of his names today are on that list!!
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