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I'm selling some nice camera gear on ebay at the moment and within minutes of posting the first offers started coming in.
2 in particular kept beating each others offer including extravagant amounts for the postage. All seems good but then they go all silly and give me an email address to contact them directly outside ebay. Which is a BAD THING according to ebay.
They also are obvious scammers as the wording of their messages are pretty much identical. So do I demand PayPal gift from them and then screw them over? - insert evil smiley here. Obviously I'm not really going to respond to them but more importantly should I contact ebay as they are
1: breaking ebay rules
2: Shysters.
Thoughts anyone?
If you don't trust them then insist on collection and paypal gift.
Ebay say it is bad because they lose the revenue.
Oh I know that.
It's not that I simply don't trust them, it is that they are not nice people. And they have the excuse of being overseas or a long way away.
Obviously they aren't all bad. One is buying the lens for his daughter's birthday and the other is buying it for his brother in Florida.
Just click the report button on the messages and forget about them, it's not worth the hassle. I got loads of scammy messages when I was selling some bits recently. You can't always trust the feedback on users either as some accounts do get hacked and used for scams.
Ebay say it is bad because they lose the revenue.
Of course they do, it's their business model, I've found way more scammers on free services like facebook marketplace
Ebay say it is bad because they lose the revenue.
They provide a service, it's not unreasonable for them to want to be paid for it.