Fraud warning do not sell to

[Garyed055]

Gary, I'm just now starting to sell some high-end electronics on eBay and I appreciate your post.

It's a good cautionary lesson for me to learn and I appreciate our sharing yours. I am very sorry that you had to go through this though.

Thank you just be sure you get the item back before issuing a refund. Also another tactic scammers use is to buy items then strip parts they need then return after so inspect any return before issuing the refund

 

[Fred Zed]

Even if the sale is successful, you’re going to have to wade through messages lowballing the price, or asking you to ship it to places you stated in the auction you would not, or scam offers of all sorts. Just far more bother than it’s worth.

Sounds a lot like Facebook marketplace. 😂

 

[SnowPenguin]

It's silly of eBay not to help the sellers like this, especially since the buyer already got their money.

Let's just hope USPS is just slow.

 

[Garyed055]

It's silly of eBay not to help the sellers like this, especially since the buyer already got their money.

Let's just hope USPS is just slow.

USPS never received the return.

 

[4sallypat]

USPS never received the return.

Well then you have gotten screwed.

Just write it off your taxes next year.

 

[jlc1978]

File a complaint with the USPS Postal Inspectors. Likely not to help, but worth the try since they used the postal service.

 

[MikB]

Thats where I goofed I received the tracking number for the return so I sent the Refund. However the Post office never received the unit. Thats the part I don't understand why buy the return postage if you have no intention of sending it back.

To fool you in this case is the obvious answer, right?
I'm sorry for you when you in good service for this customer, thief, sent the money back as you trusted they were sending back the machine they falsely claimed was not to their liking. Thus breaking the social contract of online selling and buying IMHO.

I'd say with much experience of online selling and buying you do develop a nose for when something is off. Unfortunately, when you try to alert eBay to troublesome listings that give out such beacon signals, their proclaimed "AI" personell makes a decision nothing is wrong. Clearly because it's either stupid, evilly programmed or both. It's also close to impossible to find the correct category for fraud listings. That's intentional.

To me this means that eBay, out of some obscure reason, willingly partakes in fraud.

 

[Garyed055]

File a complaint with the USPS Postal Inspectors. Likely not to help, but worth the try since they used the postal service.

Just filed the complaint. thank you I hadn't thought of that

 

[Garyed055]

To fool you in this case is the obvious answer, right?
I'm sorry for you when you in good service for this customer, thief, sent the money back as you trusted they were sending back the machine they falsely claimed was not to their liking. Thus breaking the social contract of online selling and buying IMHO.

I'd say with much experience of online selling and buying you do develop a nose for when something is off. Unfortunately, when you try to alert eBay to troublesome listings that give out such beacon signals, their proclaimed "AI" personell makes a decision nothing is wrong. Clearly because it's either stupid, evilly programmed or both. It's also close to impossible to find the correct category for fraud listings. That's intentional.

To me this means that eBay, out of some obscure reason, willingly partakes in fraud.

Yes I was foolish to send the refund before getting the unit back

 

[Garyed055]

Just remember this person @jjprodu_86 is a filthy thief that ripped off a senior citizen on a fixed income