Don't kill me a E-bay Question ( seems to weird to be ture)

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<font color="green">If you run your auctions WITHOUT the "buy it now", at least you could go to the next highest bidder and offer it to them at their last bid when the winner turns out to be a joker.

RASHY </font>

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Yeah dude, avoid 'Buy It Now' like the plague. Even if you don't get a scammer, if your BIN price seems high it will make other bidders think that it is your reserve and they might not bid. If it is low or IS your reserve then people won't bid until the end because they think they know what they can get it for. It reduces bidder competition which can reduce your take considerably sometimes.

I have sold a lot of small things (less than $500) on eBay and had great luck. When I started trying to sell things that were above that price, I started getting jacked every which way. People that would win the auction and then decide they didn't want to pay, etc. It can be a hassle.

 

I have sold 100's items on ebay and agree the smaller ticket items have fewer problems. I have only had maybe 6 or 8 flakes out of a 1000 or so items sold. I too have gotten email from people in England but before they bid. I said no thank you.
As stated above, if it works, they get big money. If not, oh well. I guess that is why you get all these Nigerian emails - somebody is falling for it.
I do not use buy it now because you never know if you could have gotten more. In addition, I ask them not to bid in my descriptions if the bidder has zero feedback or negative feedback for non-payment. That keeps most of the bad ones away but not always.
There are a lot of good people out using ebay. Seems like a few people can ruin things for everyone.
The old, "We have discovered someone is using your account illegally. Please send us you user name, password and bank account number to verify your account" is still going around. Keep in mind that ebay and PayPay will not ask for any information in an email. They will always tell you to log on to ebay or PayPal to change something.
If you think you have received a spoof email, you can send it to spoof@ebay.com. They need the whole header...Tom - restorit

 

Well I think I put a end to it this morning I got a email from the scamer he told me that me shipping the truck for him would not be good( I told him I was going to bring on a bass boat) he already is making the shipping plans for it now. I told him that the only way he was going to get the truck was to pay me cash and I wasn't going to cash a check for him. So he is gone now and I was just starting to have fun with him. I started writing him in the same broken english he used and mispelled words so he would understand. If he comes back maybe I'll get him to send me the check so I can frame it and hang it on my wall.
Rashy if you want his email I can send it to just PM me I have two differant ones you can screw with.

 

<font color="green"> Not that I've EEVER screwed with people before but, yeah, I'd like those addresses and his EBAY user name would be real handy as well.

You should have let him arrange the shipper to come pick the truck up though.

Dude shows up and you don't know what he's talking about.

I bet he prepays the driver.

That would be sweet!

RASHY </font>

 

You've got his e-mail?
Sign the guy up with some Free Gay Porn sites.

 

i got one of these e-mails last year on a car i had for sale. i already knew about the scam because of the hamb. so, i went along with it for about 2 weeks. when i got the check i took it to the bank and let them check it out. they said know way it was real.

it was a credit card check from new york city. the person on the check had a boston address, the car was suposedly going overseas. i gave it to the cops. havn't heard a thing from the cops or the guy that sent me the "check".

 

I have the missfortune (fortune) to live outside USA.
And i have bought stuff on EBAY, and if they say that they ship USA only. Ive mailed the and asked if its ok to bid anyway. And in the beginning people always answered and sometimes it was yes and sometimes no. And That's OK with me.

But lately i dont even get an answer! And i think thats rude and unpolite.

What im trying to say is that you are not a crook if you live on the other side of a border. Crooks are everywhere even in USA.

So what i say is beware of scam's if it sounds to good its often to good but it can come from all directions.

And finaly it seams that your Bank's are the biggest Scammers of all. When i get money from a checkue at the bank i get to keep it, if the bank take it it's the banks problem. That does not mean thay can refuse to take one, but a soon they have paid up, its paid up.......


Enough rambling im going back to the garage now.........

 

I bought the brake pedal for my '37 Harley on eBay from a guy in Sweden. I've also sold stuff on eBay to people in Sweden. Whenever a bad deal turns up on eBay you hear about it. There must be 10-20 thousand great deals for every bad one that makes news.

 

I have sold parts to Germany, Netherlands, England, Australia, Mexico, and Canada with no problems but they also emailed me first to ask if I would ship to them and they always pay in US funds. Checking their feedback is real important. Tom - restorit

 

I've had several overseas buyers send payment from a broker here and ship the item to them. I think they must collect a large amount of parts then have a bulk shipment sent over. Shipping a packed container full of car parts to England cost less than a coast to coast trucking job a friend told me.

 

I sold a complete set of 50 buick teeth to this guy in Finland. He paid me via Paypal and wanted me to ship them to California. No problems with $$$ transactions. PayPal is the only way to go to send and receive funds. Your $$$ is much safer. Funny part of the story, is that his moron friend never picked them up at the post office. The guy that bought them thought I was trying to scam him. I asked did he check his tracking #. They had been sitting at the post office for about 3 weeks.