i dont trust ebay at all... even though ive never had any bad experiences/transactions. seems like its all filled with scams. can't even see legit photos of products anymore!
craiglist ftw.
craiglist ftw.
the last one i received made me laugh. the guy claimed to be the fbi!!! ahahha. in the emails, there english sucks.
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.
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.
Just got another 3 emails about the first listing saying if I don't send the iPhone they will take legal action against me as I have broken eBay and PayPal rules.
yep same here , funny thing was the sent me emails claiming to be paypal and i needed to ship the item ASAP, and when i told them thats not how paypal works and i wasnt going to ship the iphone until the money was in my account, not even 20 minutes later i got a later claiming to be from the FBI!! haha made me laugh![]()
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![]()
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!
Originally Posted by stevoeddz
the last one i received made me laugh. the guy claimed to be the fbi!!! ahahha. in the emails, there english sucks.
THEIR English sucks
Finally, it sold successfully and legitimately for £240/$450 I'm very happy![]()