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stevee1999
·Just wanted to alert the forum about a recent experience I had when I sold a vintage watch on Ebay. I made the sale and sent the watch off to authenticate. All was good in terms of payment and the expected hold on funds until after the authentication process was complete. The seller requested authentification and I mailed the watch to the Ebay Authentication address right after the sale.
The weird part was, shortly after the sale, I received a message from a different person claiming to be the buyer and wanting me to send the watch to a different address. That was quickly followed up by a message directly from Ebay stating not to communicate with this 2nd person and it may be fraud. This 2nd person had just created their account the day I sold my watch and had zero feedback.
I have since checked on the history of this 2nd person and they are no longer active on Ebay.
I'm glad that Ebay checks for these types of situations and notified me right away.
Don't know if others may have run across a similar situation, but only shipping to a verified address and not dealing with buyers who have zero feedback would be a good rule to follow to prevent an unfortunate outcome.
The weird part was, shortly after the sale, I received a message from a different person claiming to be the buyer and wanting me to send the watch to a different address. That was quickly followed up by a message directly from Ebay stating not to communicate with this 2nd person and it may be fraud. This 2nd person had just created their account the day I sold my watch and had zero feedback.
I have since checked on the history of this 2nd person and they are no longer active on Ebay.
I'm glad that Ebay checks for these types of situations and notified me right away.
Don't know if others may have run across a similar situation, but only shipping to a verified address and not dealing with buyers who have zero feedback would be a good rule to follow to prevent an unfortunate outcome.
