So, I have never used Ebay, but a friend of mine has. I have a 2nd Xbox Premium and he has an HD projector that he wants to get rid of, so we decided to bundle them together and sell them as a package.
My friend listed the items (spending 3 hours taking pics and working up the description). We set a buy it now price that would be nice to hit and a bidding reserve that we needed at an absolute minimum.
He lists the item last night and I see that it's already been sold at the buy it now price this morning. I got a bit of a hard on because we got more than we planned for it. Then I noticed the buyer had no feedback and was not registered.
A call from my friend confirmed my fears. The buyer had already had his Ebay account revoked. He had emailed my friend saying he (the buyer) was from Illinois, but living in London and that he'd prefer the Xbox and projector be shipped to his daughter in Nigeria.
Yeah, sure, let me drop that in the mail for you this afternoon fvckface.
Now we have to start all over again and think hard about if we even want to bother with the buy it now price. We can set limits on who can buy (i.e., only buyers from the US) but that won't stop fvckers like him because he claimed he was from the states, just currently out of country.
As for fees, hopefully all fees for our original auction will be refunded. It looks like the most will be hit with is $20. That's still $20 I could have used for something other than to try and get scammed with.
Cliffs
-All Nigerian scammers should die.
My friend listed the items (spending 3 hours taking pics and working up the description). We set a buy it now price that would be nice to hit and a bidding reserve that we needed at an absolute minimum.
He lists the item last night and I see that it's already been sold at the buy it now price this morning. I got a bit of a hard on because we got more than we planned for it. Then I noticed the buyer had no feedback and was not registered.
A call from my friend confirmed my fears. The buyer had already had his Ebay account revoked. He had emailed my friend saying he (the buyer) was from Illinois, but living in London and that he'd prefer the Xbox and projector be shipped to his daughter in Nigeria.
Yeah, sure, let me drop that in the mail for you this afternoon fvckface.
Now we have to start all over again and think hard about if we even want to bother with the buy it now price. We can set limits on who can buy (i.e., only buyers from the US) but that won't stop fvckers like him because he claimed he was from the states, just currently out of country.
As for fees, hopefully all fees for our original auction will be refunded. It looks like the most will be hit with is $20. That's still $20 I could have used for something other than to try and get scammed with.
Cliffs
-All Nigerian scammers should die.
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