Listed a used laptop on Ebay this morning. Ebay member with score of (-1) used the "buy it now" otion and bought it. Now an email comes through frm member asking me to send it to Nigerian friend. Checked feedback comments for the (-1) and this is the comment "WARNING! This user is a Nigerian Scammer!" from anopther Ebay member TODAY! I sent an email to and with all the details (set to Paypal because member said could pay via Paypal). Here's the email from Member: Looks like I will be hit with selling fees and also relisting fees. But I want the member banned from buying from me. Any ideas what else I can do?
tell the buyer that you don't accept Paypal payment from Overseas, send money through bankwire or western union instead if he's able to. If s/he rufuse then dump him. Keep on reporting to ebay so they will waive your seller fees.
If you are powerseller then you can do a lot like me if not then all you can do is keep emailing ebay
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!! Don't do that !!!! Nigerias are very smart this days, and they will buy/sell non-existing things over the internet. Maiby they will sell a car or even a horse, to somebody , and they will put them to pay you for the laptop ! they won't get theyre horse/animal/toxic chimacals or (whatevery they sell for an excelent price) and theose guy will sue you ! Don't do that !!!! don't get any money from any nigerian !!! you will get in trouble!!!!
ever since i started my 1st website, i keep receiving those kind of email and worst is i never register ebay at all.
I had this problem 3 times when I had my laptop on eBay with a BIN before. File an Unpaid Item with eBay to get your fees back. http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/unpaid-item-process.html I would list it with a BIN but require immediate payment.
Man, let me tell you something sure. There are kind of people that steal from ebay. First are the romanians, that are selling unexisting products The second are the nigerians, that buy products without paying. How can i be so sure ? Easy, because in my neighborhood there are dozens/hudreds that do this and i know from them. So take care who you trade with
like WMBurg says - you can re-coup your listing fees and re-list it theres lots of settings you can apply to cut out all these shabby bidders: go into your account options, block out "bidders from countries i dont ship too" set your "bidders under x feedback" and consider "bidders must have a paypal account to bid" plus you can block this donkey's ass from bidding on your junk again - here http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/block_bidders.html dosnt eliminate the problem - but cuts down all this crap, especially if you ever want to sell a mobile phone and dont want it going to nigeria for a £60,000 cheque instead of teh £15 you actually wanted for it
Make sure you don't accept any payment from such pay pal account. If they find that the account is fraudulent, They will freeze your a/c along with his! and all the money inside your pay pal a/c will be not accessible unless this issue is resolved. SO Be CAREFUL!
Thanks to all. The Ebay member is no longer registered. (Probably banned). I have put a unpaid item claim in. I should get my fees back and now another (legit) person is interested in the item. Col
Good luck, hopefully you won't have to pay the listing and final cost fee. I hate scammers and fake bidders, just a waste of time and money.
What you can do in the future is restrict users with a feeback of less than X to use the "Buy Now" feature.