I could have been scammed TWICE this weekend through ebay. It has now cost me over $10 because of fees. The first said he was going to pay with Western Union and have the box picked up through DHL. Well, it came time for DHL to pick it up and the money had not cleared. I cancelled the pickup and emailed the guy. Then realized he was no longer a user with ebay and emailed him and said it was a scam and I wasn’t shipping it. He never emailed me back.
So I put another laptop yesterday. I guy bought it overnight and said he would pay through paypal. He used to live in NC, was in Australia now and wanted the laptop shipping to his grandson in Nigeria and would have FedEx pick up the box. Yeah right. Just google Nigeria and ebay and you’ll see. So I emailed the guy and said I would not accept payment and would not be shipping it to him.
What is with these people?! It’s terrible!
My parents also got someone pulling the Nigeria thing when they tried to sell a large screen tv a couple months ago.
For anyone that pays you by Money Order – make sure you dno’t ship ANYthing until you confirm that the money order has cleared!! My parents deposited a money order for their tv and was only told when they went investigating that it was a counterfeit.