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[BloodOmen]

So I put my PSP on Ebay with my games/cables etc and I put on "Will accept private buyouts" woke up this morning and seen this in my mailbox - my buyout was £150.



" Q: Good day to you, what a nice item you gat here,i am interested in your item displayed on ebay, i want get this item for my son who is currently studying in Africa in a missionary school as a birthday gift.I would have love to bid as others but the nature of my job will not allow me to do this at this time, I will be offering you £200.00 for the item. So please if you are interested in selling this item to me, kindly send me your full names and your paypal email address so that I can send out payment immediately via Paypal because it secure,fast,reliable, and scam free , As i said earlier am offering you £200.00 for this item this will include both the shipping and handling cost to africa.Your urgent response will be highly appreciated. Thanks and God bless."

So on this I immediately looked at the person feedback which was- the highlighted numbers below are the sales counts of the ebayers that left feedback.



Feedback / Item From Seller Date/Time
Positive feedback rating Thanks for the purchase and prompt payment! Enjoy the race.
greatatlantic23451 ( 242 [Feedback score is 100 to 499] )
08-Apr-08 14:14
3 TICKETS-DOGWOOD TOWER-RICHMOND (#270215511340) -- View Item
Detailed item information is not available for the following items because the Feedback is over 90 days old.
Positive feedback rating Thank you from Blue-Bay-Electronics! Prompt payment, A+
blue-bay-electronics ( 69210 [Feedback score is 50,000 to 99,999] )
26-Mar-08 17:17
-- (#300207016520) --
Positive feedback rating Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
happygadgets ( 1516 [Feedback score is 1,000 to 4,999] )
04-Mar-08 14:21
-- (#160200868651) --
Positive feedback rating Extremely quick payer and Great E-Bayer - Just what E-Baying is all about A+++
colordrives ( 353846 [Feedback score is 100,000 or higher] )
04-Mar-08 14:21
-- (#300200159269) --
Positive feedback rating Fast Payment!! Overall Great Transaction!!
onetdhcheme ( 31 [Feedback score is 10 to 49] )
20-Dec-07 01:11
-- (#140190766787) --
Positive feedback rating quick payment, good buyer
airmarcus1 ( 133 [Feedback score is 100 to 499] )
18-Dec-07 00:16
-- (#330197725435) --
Negative feedback rating Buyer made no attempt to contact. Never Paid for tickets. Beware
rpljr ( 180 [Feedback score is 100 to 499] )
10-Dec-07 23:55
-- (#290185806188)

 

[old.Tohtori]

Check out the ones who commented positive, and their feedbacks. If they seem legit, why not?

 

[BloodOmen]

Check out the ones who commented positive, and their feedbacks. If they seem legit, why not?

well 2 of the ones that gave feedback have MASSIVE sales scores one guy has over 350,000 sales with 98% positive and the other 69000 sales 96% positive.

 

[Bahumat]

lol this is obvious what he's done.

Buys some items from some hgeavy sellers to get good feedback. This then makes people thing he is an ok guy...but he's not, that is his bluff to scam everyone.

 

[BloodOmen]

lol this is obvious what he's done.

Buys some items from some hgeavy sellers to get good feedback. This then makes people thing he is an ok guy...but he's not, that is his bluff to scam everyone.

Soon find out cause no psp is being sent until theres £200 sitting in my paypal account ^_^ soon as £200 appears in my paypal its going straight into my bank and all receipts will be kept off the items sent along with a home telephone number which i'll ask for.

If its a scam they wont give out the number if it isn't they won't mind.


Edit: btw some of the purchases the person made were upto almost 2 years ago, don't think a scammer would hang around so long and not get negative feedback. (Don't quote me just a guess I made)

 

[soze]

Check out the items he purchased see if they are just a few quid each. Or say you will not ship the item till cash has cleared into your bank?

 

[Manisch Depressiv]

That "I can send out payment immediately via Paypal because it secure,fast,reliable, and scam free" alone sounds like a major scam.

The only way you know someone is not going to get his money back is to take it from him, to shoot him and to leave earth for the moon, everything else is just bullshit and the guy is bullshitting you.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

As i said earlier am offering you £200.00 for this item this will include both the shipping and handling cost to africa.Your urgent response will be highly appreciated. Thanks and God bless.

You have to post it to Africa? Dude, check the postage rates before accepting, you could end up with a £80 postage bill. Also, yeah, sounds suspect, leave the thing to run for a few more days.

 

[BloodOmen]

Check out the items he purchased see if they are just a few quid each. Or say you will not ship the item till cash has cleared into your bank?

Latest thing he/she bought was $390 - another for £80 all the otheres were " Detailed item information is not available for the following items because the Feedback is over 90 days old."

 

[BloodOmen]

As i said earlier am offering you £200.00 for this item this will include both the shipping and handling cost to africa.Your urgent response will be highly appreciated. Thanks and God bless.

You have to post it to Africa? Dude, check the postage rates before accepting, you could end up with a £80 postage bill. Also, yeah, sounds suspect, leave the thing to run for a few more days.

Postage to africa for 1kg parcel is £11. (info taken from royal mail website) and aye I agree sounds odd so i'm gonna leave it running for a little bit longer.



Sony PSP Slim & Lite + 3 Great Games + 4gig Memory Card on eBay, also, Sony PSP, Consoles Systems, Video Games (end time 05-Jul-08 19:32:05 BST) - If anyone is interested by the way

 

[Binky the Bomb]

He could be legit, however, just make sure you check all your options on Ebay, make sure your covered.

 

[BloodOmen]

He could be legit, however, just make sure you check all your options on Ebay, make sure your covered.

to be honest if someone in the UK offers me £150 i'll take the UK offer, less hastle + if he rips me off I can go around his house and lace 2 bags of shit out of him

 

[Binky the Bomb]

to be honest if someone in the UK offers me £150 i'll take the UK offer, less hastle + if he rips me off I can go around his house and lace 2 bags of shit out of him

Or cut the brakes on his car.... if you wanted to.

 

[georgie]

i want get this item for my son who is currently studying in Africa in a missionary school as a birthday gift.I would have love to bid as others but the nature of my job will not allow me to do this at this time, I will be offering you £200.00 for the item.

rofl

Scam.

 

[tris-]

I would have love to bid as others but the nature of my job will not allow me to do this at this time,

but he has 10 minutes to send a mewssage? afaik couldnt he set a max bid of £200 and leave it, then come check it when the auction ends?

 

[Tootz]

Yeah its a known scam thats been doing the rounds on eBay for a while now. They purposefully go after high value electronic items (mobile phones etc) and then tell you this bollocks about sending it to their son/husband or whatever in Africa - usually Nigeria.

Most of them will send out a fake PayPal email as well which at first glance looks legit, and its caught out many people, so whenever you sell anything and get paid by PayPal, ALWAYS check your account through PayPal's website to see if you have actually been paid.

Good rule of thumb, as soon as a buyer mentions Africa, run for the hills...

 

[Tay]

RIP OFF - Seller beware

I've been on Ebay for many years and am in the process (if I can cut the cord) of moving away to reality. Sure you can get some good deals on Ebay but every other one (If your active) is frought with danger.

Anything and I mean anything I see with Africa or Nigeria or "buying for my Brother, uncle, Sister" or large unclaimed fortune....forget it.

Seriously, it is not worth the risk, I dont care what Paypal says, they cannot guarantee you one penny compensation..

Remember the onus is on you to prove delivery, not the sender, I suspect you'll get a message saying sorry it never arrived and paypal will recover the money from your account or your bank or credit card..

Bear in mind Paypal is not a bank and not subject to the same rules. they are a law unto themselves. All the people that have ever tried to rip me off have done it using paypal. Once or twice I have got my own back on fraudsters but more often than not you lost your item and your cash.

Also remember, you cant even rate the user negative if they do rip you off. He gets the cash, the item and maybe a +tive rating for sending paypal fast, you may get a negative for all your trouble.

But hey ho, its your cash, Item and rating

 

[Bahumat]

Tay hit the nail on the head.

Internet purchases are always risky. If you have any doubt, walk away.

 

[BloodOmen]

Aye twas solved contacted paypal and gave every shred of info i had on the person they said forward the emails to paypal and delete them from your inbox.

thankfully i had you lot + friends to help solve it lol was to baked to sort it out myself.

psp still for sale btw! £150 *cough*

 

[Tay]

Aye twas solved contacted paypal and gave every shred of info i had on the person they said forward the emails to paypal and delete them from your inbox.

thankfully i had you lot + friends to help solve it lol was to baked to sort it out myself.

psp still for sale btw! £150 *cough*

*cough*

Would you take Western Union money order for it? post to Nigeria?, I have a brother there working on the rigs and this is a present for him..god bless..

Sorry, I couldn't resist it

 

[pikeh]

But I hear the Prince of Uganda is after a PSP, for 1 million Ugandan dollars.