Ebay

[ae102]

how many of you have sold things on eBay? been selling a few bits from me old corolla and got loads of interest......... then they win the auction and dont pay ...... wouldnt mind, think 1 of them was of here. Is this common? i never had trouble when buying things........

[Norfolk n Chance]

Had that happen twice when i sold an N95 last year.

1st "winner" asked me to post it to Nigeria first and then would send payment.

2nd "winner", won, paid through Paypal and provided an alternate address as they wouldn't be in.

This was then followed by an email the following morning from Paypal informing me that it was a fraudulent transaction and asking me to send the money back (£450).

Seems the world unfortunately has an abundance of scammers and timewasters

[ae102]

probably end me auctions tonight....... ubik em! keep to my original plan and get me a gxi again.

[farhanali89]

to clear the matter up, paypal restricted my account but allowed me to keep the £800 in compensation for harrassment when it was clearly not my fault. I was granted access back to my paypal account as i had reasonable grounds because of no notification until after. In the case of not receiving adequate notification for sending an item off and then having my account credited with £800 they allowed me to keep the ammount to settle it without taking it further because of the harrasment letters. Finnaly at the time i was under 18 and they did not carry out checks to see if i was eligible for a paypal account, At the time they let this go as there lack of responsibility allowed me to use paypal under the age permitted.

Matter was solved, The original buyers account was also compensated no harm done.

[K19NE G]

i had a dodgy buyer pay from paypal unconfirmed address £800 fone new it was dodgy accepted it didnt send the phone lol

sent a empty box with paper in it to get postage proof and because of paypal and ebays lack of knowledge of the fraudulent transaction i fort stuff u im going to mess the fraudulent guy, paypal and every1 who dare come in my way this time lol. Money in my account withdrew it to the bank took it all out and told em all to get lost when the charge back came. Showed them the postage print off label and they harrased me done my head in for the money back been a year now and they have left me. Great £800 i got a clean record they havent done anything gave paypal a good piece of my mind down the fone showed them postage print thing they wouldnt have it so everytime they foned sent letters i fort forget it.

Spent that 800 well nicely lolol 3 days i spent it in 3 days felt like a millionaire lol.

So somehow because this guys money cleared in your account he was dodgy!?!?!? Just because he had an unconfirmed address means nothing! It just means he might not have a landline at his house to go through the confirmation process PayPal uses... I think your actions were despicable to be honest...

[cfc1]

i had a dodgy buyer pay from paypal unconfirmed address £800 fone new it was dodgy accepted it didnt send the phone lol

sent a empty box with paper in it to get postage proof and because of paypal and ebays lack of knowledge of the fraudulent transaction i fort stuff u im going to mess the fraudulent guy, paypal and every1 who dare come in my way this time lol. Money in my account withdrew it to the bank took it all out and told em all to get lost when the charge back came. Showed them the postage print off label and they harrased me done my head in for the money back been a year now and they have left me. Great £800 i got a clean record they havent done anything gave paypal a good piece of my mind down the fone showed them postage print thing they wouldnt have it so everytime they foned sent letters i fort forget it.

Spent that 800 well nicely lolol 3 days i spent it in 3 days felt like a millionaire lol.

I am interesrted to know how you knew it was dodgy... other than an unconfirmed address. Can you give more details?

[chenks]

it means it was someone using a hacked account... therefore the person who "won" the auction was the actual owner of the eBay and paypal account.

it's happened to me before as well.

you should only every send an item to the address that is listed in the paypal account. you can get this from eBay once your item has sold. if the person asks to send it to some other address (even if only 1 line is different) then you should treat it as suspicous.

[fisel]

i had a dodgy buyer pay from paypal unconfirmed address £800 fone new it was dodgy accepted it didnt send the phone lol

sent a empty box with paper in it to get postage proof and because of paypal and ebays lack of knowledge of the fraudulent transaction i fort stuff u im going to mess the fraudulent guy, paypal and every1 who dare come in my way this time lol. Money in my account withdrew it to the bank took it all out and told em all to get lost when the charge back came. Showed them the postage print off label and they harrased me done my head in for the money back been a year now and they have left me. Great £800 i got a clean record they havent done anything gave paypal a good piece of my mind down the fone showed them postage print thing they wouldnt have it so everytime they foned sent letters i fort forget it.

Spent that 800 well nicely lolol 3 days i spent it in 3 days felt like a millionaire lol.

I wouldnt send an item to an unconfirmed address for something of that amount, but you have clearly comitted a criminal offence there pal. If you received a charge back, this means the actual cardholder is trying to claim their funds back. Reasons being, they could have been the ones who placed the order, but since you didnt send the goods they did a charge back, or they didnt place the order so they did a chargeback. Seeing as you actually had the funds and you werent defrauded, it would be simple enough to just give it back. Then you have the audacity to berate paypal for something you did wrong, pretty sad imo.

[K19NE G]

it means it was someone using a hacked account... therefore the person who "won" the auction was the actual owner of the ebay and paypal account.

it's happened to me before as well.

you should only every send an item to the address that is listed in the paypal account. you can get this from ebay once your item has sold. if the person asks to send it to some other address (even if only 1 line is different) then you should treat it as suspicous.

I agree chenks... "treat it as suspicious"... not potentially ROB someone (who could be inoccent) of £800 hard-earned money like this guy did!!!

[chenks]

I agree chenks... "treat it as suspicious"... not potentially ROB someone (who could be inoccent) of £800 hard-earned money like this guy did!!!

in my case, paypal were pretty quick in telephoning me to let me know to not send the item. they then retracted the paypal transfer. although i was already suspicous anyway as the person was desperate for me to send the item straight away via an untrackable method of post.