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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: cmoking
I sold an item on ebay. The buyer had a feedback of 1. The item the guy bought was around $160. |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: JudgeDred (Fred)
Send it to the address for the paypal acct. Let them mail it to Latvia. As with all paypal mailings spend the extra few dollars to ensure it has some type of tracking on it else you might get raked over the coals. |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: cmoking
The paypal payment says the buyer is "unverified buyer". so that doesn't make me comfortable at all about shipping to the Paypal address either (in Texas). |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: Charlie O'Neal
Sound to me like they are using stolen funds to pay for the auction. |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: JudgeDred (Fred)
From the paypal website: |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: cmoking
Thanks Fred, and others who emailed me. I appreciate the advice and help. I won't be sending this item. |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: Elliot
FWIW, i think you did the right thing. PayPal allows you to set your account up to have several different shipping addresses, all of which would still be verified. There's no need for them to ask you to ship to a different address than what is on the PayPal payment. Some sort of scam, I'm sure. |
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OT: ebay/paypal situation...did I do the right thing?
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
haven't heard about specific scams with Latvia, but Nigeria, Ghana and Chad are HUGE hotbeds of scams. Not just the emails about needing to get rid of $20MM but also for web sellers like Amazon and many others. These people somehow befriend people in the US, get them to order a bunch of stuff for them, consolidate it and then ship it to them. Ultimately, what happens is that the CC's all come up stolen or bad or something (but not immediately) and the goods are long gone. Typically, the shipping is done at a UPS Store, Office Depot or other retail shipping outlet and they too are out of $$ when the transaction fails as well. |
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