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Just got scammed selling iPhone on eBay

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James17

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Bidding was going well until end when someone with 170 feedbacks won my item, sent me an email asking to send invoice and gave me their address but within another 5 minutes I got an email from eBay saying they wiped my listing and were trying to restore the winning bidders account to its original owner. They've given me my listing fees back but I wanted the content of the listing at least to re-list.

I should have made a copy of the listing and took a note of the other high bidders as it's all gone now. I just wasted 5 days of listing my iPhone, very angry:mad:
 
I managed to sell my 1st Gen at the 3rd attempt a few weeks ago, after the same Nigerian guy, a "Mrs Bill Jones" won my auction twice on the trot, and wanted me to ship to Nigeria- then came the fake paypal emails telling me that the paypal funds would not be released to me until I posted the item, followed by ebay emails telling me my account would be suspended. Luckily I managed to find a Second Chance bidder who paid £280 for it in the end.

I must say, I wouldn't have been quite so alert if it wasn't for finding the same scam posted on here at various times, so thanks very much guys, for basically saving me £300!
 
slidetounlock said:
Um, is it really a scam?
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No it is not a scam.

A scam would imply that you somehow lost the iPhone. You did not get scammed one bit. You're that pissed off that you have to recreate your listing? Be happy you didn't send the item off.
 
Its simple really, would you rather relist the phone or lose the phone altogether to the scammer? :rolleyes:
 
when i was trying to sell my 1st gen iphone, this happened to me 2 times in a row. luckily it finally sold to a legit buyer for $450.

i probably got 5 emails from each scammer claiming to be paypal or ebay. the last one i received made me laugh. the guy claimed to be the fbi!!! ahahha. in the emails, there english sucks.

i really wanted to just ship them a box with a spring loaded boxing glove inside it to maybe teach them a lesson.:p
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

A scam? I'd call it a happy ending.
 
Welcome to selling on ebay and you didn't get scammed.

Happened to me before. Sold a Thinkpad on ebay, I was expect more than $1000, but somehow it go to $6000. I was paid and I had withdrawn my money already, ready to ship. Then get an email from ebay asking me to give the money back... :(
 
PoitNarf said:
A 24 hour auction for iPhones is usually sufficient. 5 days is WAY longer than you need.
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eBay has a specific policy on iPhone sales and the minimum is a 5 day listing in the UK, 1 and 3 day listings are banned!
 
kind of of topic but has anyone noticed when they buy something and place a max bid of lets say 40 dollars, the auction always ends at like 39.50? I have had this happen a few times, and its probably just a coincidence but can the seller see what the max bid is and then boost it up to just below your max?
 
chappy87 said:
I managed to sell my 1st Gen at the 3rd attempt a few weeks ago, after the same Nigerian guy, a "Mrs Bill Jones" won my auction twice on the trot, and wanted me to ship to Nigeria- then came the fake paypal emails telling me that the paypal funds would not be released to me until I posted the item, followed by ebay emails telling me my account would be suspended. Luckily I managed to find a Second Chance bidder who paid £280 for it in the end.

I must say, I wouldn't have been quite so alert if it wasn't for finding the same scam posted on here at various times, so thanks very much guys, for basically saving me £300!
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Happened to me to and i went as far as turning the phone into fedex and paying for shipping, something just didn't feel right about all the paypal emails so that night i went home and called paypal and found out it was a scam. the next morning i went to fedex and got my iphone before the shipment went out. cost me 5$ but hey better than loosing my iphone. i have decided to keep it and unlocked it and now use it as a ipod touch in the car. it doesnt work here anyways and now i have the 3G. So i just use it as a 8gb touch
 
After relisting it last night I've received so many fake emails supposedly from eBay and Paypal asking for a tracking number before I send the phone. If that's not it, I've had more fake emails today about my new listing asking for deals outside of eBay, them Nigerian ones saying they will pay £600/$1200 for a 2G 8GB iPhone when a brand new 3G one is a lot less, fakers! I have no luck with eBay.
 
James17 said:
After relisting it last night I've received so many fake emails supposedly from eBay and Paypal asking for a tracking number before I send the phone. If that's not it, I've had more fake emails today about my new listing asking for deals outside of eBay, them Nigerian ones saying they will pay £600/$1200 for a 2G 8GB iPhone when a brand new 3G one is a lot less, fakers! I have no luck with eBay.
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You will get those offers for anything you sell on eBay. I sold three iPhones and a MB and MBP last month and got those stupid offers for everything I sold.
 
chappy87 said:
I managed to sell my 1st Gen at the 3rd attempt a few weeks ago, after the same Nigerian guy, a "Mrs Bill Jones" won my auction twice on the trot, and wanted me to ship to Nigeria- then came the fake paypal emails telling me that the paypal funds would not be released to me until I posted the item, followed by ebay emails telling me my account would be suspended. Luckily I managed to find a Second Chance bidder who paid £280 for it in the end.

I must say, I wouldn't have been quite so alert if it wasn't for finding the same scam posted on here at various times, so thanks very much guys, for basically saving me £300!
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LOL! I got a Mrs Bill Jones as well, exactly the same pattern of emails too. They bid £1000 for my old Nokia N95... I knew something was up by that point :)
 
James17 said:
Bidding was going well until end when someone with 170 feedbacks won my item, sent me an email asking to send invoice and gave me their address but within another 5 minutes I got an email from eBay saying they wiped my listing and were trying to restore the winning bidders account to its original owner. They've given me my listing fees back but I wanted the content of the listing at least to re-list.

I should have made a copy of the listing and took a note of the other high bidders as it's all gone now. I just wasted 5 days of listing my iPhone, very angry:mad:
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This is far from a scam.
 
The Pre-AOL Internet

Remember the days on the Internet before AOL had connected ?

When the people you posted with on Usenet were honest and in awe of this innovative Internet?

Then came the posers, carpet baggers, politicians, spammers, porn-purveyors & scammers.

Sorry to learn of your e-bay auction getting wasted. E-bay: a waste of time.
 
alphaod said:
Welcome to selling on ebay and you didn't get scammed.

Happened to me before. Sold a Thinkpad on ebay, I was expect more than $1000, but somehow it go to $6000. I was paid and I had withdrawn my money already, ready to ship. Then get an email from ebay asking me to give the money back... :(
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You had cash money in hand and you didn't ship the item because ebay told you not to? Nosir....I don't believe that. Sorry.
 
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