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bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

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    by: ibrahim koky
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    15 posts

    bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 2:57 am.

    hey guys

    i had an labtop for sale last week it was on bidding,
    this guy link hidden contacted me at my ebay account to tell me that he want to buy the notebook, and this was his message ,,

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    Hello Seller,
    I will like to buy this Item from you I'm in A.T.F.N for Agric
    conference in Africa Nigeria, I will pay Via PayPal this is fast and
    secured. You can calculate the shipping cost to this address so i will
    know the shipping cost including the Item cost. the adrress is here
    below, Calculate the shipping cost and tell me the Total cost. please if
    PayPal make sure you reply
    with your PayPal ID, ALL THE PAYMENT WILL GO INSIDE EBAY

    Name:- Ademola Ayodeji.
    Address:- 7UP Rd,Opp MTN Oluyole Estate, Ring Rd,
    City:- Ibadan
    State:- Oyo State
    Country:- Nigeria
    Zip Code :- 23402

    I want Shipping Via US Postal Service .
    Thanks
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    And then eBay Customer Support sent me a message to Warn me from this member because this membership someone Stole from its owner.

    according this i ignored him,
    But now he won the bid and he want me to send him the item, one more thing 'At the item page I said that i send only to the united states and now he want me to ship it outside the US .
    i sent him a message to tell him that i am not going to ship outside the US , he sent me back with this message :
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    I just want to inform you that i have made the payment for you and as soon as you have received the confirmation of the payment that has been approved by PayPal ,kindly go and make the shipment through USPS Express Mail International to Nigeria Today and send the tracking number of the shipment to me ,also to them so that they can verified the shipment on time..Hope to hear back from you as soon as you ship the item out...The tracking number will started with E series and End up with US....

    Below is my store Shipping Address.

    NAME : OLAYEMI ADEDAYO
    ADDRESS : NO 6 AYO AYINDE CLOSE , AGBOWO UI.
    CITY : IBADAN
    STATE :OYO STATE
    ZIPCODE : 23402
    COUNTRY :NIGERIA
    RECEIVER'S PHONE NUMBER : +2347059237158

    Thanks and God Bless

    I will stay online to read back from you as soon as you ship the item out and get back to me with the tracking number ...
    -----------------------------------------

    and till now i don't see any payments on my paypal account and ebay still doesn't show any payment from him.

    What should I do ?
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    by: rollerband
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    10 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 4:30 am.

    Hi Ibrahim,
    I got it once, shipping to Nigeria, but a different buyer. Saying that she wants the SLR camera, as a birthday gift to her son.
    I still provide to her the price including freight. Payment accepted by paypal.
    I also received an email on paypal payment, look about the same as what the official paypal mail subject 'You've Received Payment for an eBay item!'

    In actual fact, i received nothing, after checking my paypal account. And as i read below the mail, this is the message that show hints of a fraud.

    'Send shipment reference/tracking number to us or email us through our Customer Care Service at: link hidden and our Customer Care Service will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment reference/tracking number for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account. '
    The next check to confirmed is, ebay should have already ban this buyer's ID.

    This is common.. I always do it this way as my rule of thumb...
    'No payment, No shipment'

    Cheers,
    Edwin
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    by: ibrahim koky
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    15 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 4:49 am.

    first, thanks Edwin
    so now what should I do,, just ignore him,, and what about the item should I relist it ?
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    by: haydee
    SaleHoo Master Member
    362 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 5:01 am.

    Hi Ibrahim,

    It's Nigerian Scam. I'm glad that you posted this and checked your PayPal account for the payment before deciding on whether you should ship the item or not.

    Don't ship the item and report him to eBay. I assume that his eBay account is already under investigation since as you said, eBay warned you about him. If you report him, you might actually get him suspended from eBay.

    If you do a Forum Search, you will find some related posts.

    For more information on online scams, what steps to take to avoid being scammed, how to deal with scammers, how and where to report them and other related topics, please check out the following links:

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    All the best,
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    by: ibrahim koky
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    15 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 6:46 am.

    thank you Haydee
    thank you guys :)

    Best Regards
    IBRAHIM
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    by: grace190208
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    28 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 10:16 am.

    HI Ibrahim,

    I am very sorry to hear of your first bad experience! I too am new to EBAY. I have to say though, i have found a lot of sellers on EBAY with notes on their listings that say they will not post to NIGERIA so i think that this scam thing is very common knowledge (among people who have been on EBAY a long time that is!). As far as i know, if you have specified that you will not send internationally, then they should not be bidding and you are not obliged to send the item - i would have reported to EBAY as you were advised above so you have done the right thing. Better luck for your next sale,

    Grace190208
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    by: fudjj
    SaleHoo Staff
    1999 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 8:32 pm.

    Hi IBRAHIM KOKY,

    As has been said, definitely a Nigerian Scam, and these types of scams have actually been given the name 'Nigerian Scam' because of the volume of these types of scams that come from that part of the world.

    Now even though this scam will most likely always have some sort of Nigerian contact as part of it, they can come from any area of the world so you always need to make sure you do the same checks and balances.

    A regular example from Nigeria would be: 'I live in London, but my brother is working for a charity in Nigeria currently, and requires a mobile phone so we are able to maintain contact with him. I would really like to buy the phone from you and have you send it direct to him there please.

    They will also usually offer you a premium price for the phone to close the deal.

    Mobile phones are a favourite of theirs to sting, but they will usually go after any sort of electronic technology that they find available.

    You've done really well to keep your eyes open with this one, as many new comers to ebay will be so excited about making the sale, they forget to do their checks and balances and then pay the penalty.

    Marc Ransom

    Community Manager
    SaleHoo

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    by: aznvcboi
    SaleHoo Senior Member
    52 posts

    Re: bad luck with my first sale on ebay :( !! HELP...

    Posted 28 Oct 09 8:53 pm.

    Hi.

    I got the same scam twice. It was actually by someone within US. She want me to send a Wii console to Nigeria and I was almost fall for it. First, I received the same email title like the one come from Paypal states that I received payment for the item I listed on Craigslist. When I emailed her back and told her the payment didn't go through. She informed me that it has been cleared and I have to ship the item otherwise she will report me to Paypal and federal investigator. I forwarded her email to paypal support and they told me to ignore her request because no payment has been submitted and the email she used in her paypal account does not exist. She sent me bunch of email threaten me about federal offense and all kind of stuff - ONE THING SHE FORGOT IS THAT I COULD CHECK HER REAL EMAIL ADDRESS AND NOT JUST TITLE. It came from mail2consultant.com, I reported it to federal agency and paypal for investigation. Never heard anything from her again. I hope she got locked up somewhere :)

    So, just ignore them!!! Forward their email to Paypal and Ebay Customer support. This is high priority for Paypal and ebay to process these frauds. Good luck with eBay business!!!