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Am I about to somehow get scammed on eBay / Paypal by a wierd buyer?

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quarterback:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 13, 2008, 12:37:59 am ---Damn . . . I have a couple PDAs I need to sell.  I should get on Ebay while this guy is still in the market!
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It's possible I just put too low of a BIN price, but I swear there are other auctions with the same PDA and similar extras that are about $80 less than mine but haven't sold.   :dunno


This immediate-buying so soon after submitting the auction thing is still odd to me.  It's been a while since I've ebayed anything, so I guess there must be new watchlist options or something because, in the past my auctions wouldn't even show up in a search for the first half hour or so.  But a very similar thing  happened when I sold some old tracfones a couple weeks ago.  It took less than 30 minutes before somebody hit BIN and sent the money.

That was a wierd one too, that buyer has bought over a hundred tracfones in the last month and is gobbling them up like nobody's business....

paigeoliver:
My standard ebay shipping address includes an ATTN: Paige Oliver.

Also, from my experience there is no legitimate internet business sourced in Africa. I have sold thousands of items online in the last decade to North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, but I have never had a legitimate buyer from Africa. For that matter I have never had a legitimate buyer with who typed in what I call "African English", which is a mix of British English and US English with a major skew as to which words are more common, usually coupled with grammar and sentence structure that is incorrect for english, although perfectly correct for many African languages.

Have you checked your paypal account to see if you actually got the money and the payment itself wasn't spoofed?

Your buyer does appear to be typing in African English.

quarterback:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 13, 2008, 02:29:01 am ---I have sold thousands of items online in the last decade to North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, but I have never had a legitimate buyer from Africa.
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The buyer's confirmed PayPal address is here in the continental US.   And when I googled their name I was able to locate it on a university webpage at a school about 30 miles from the confirmed address, so at least it's an easily trackable shipment that should be there in a matter of days (as opposed to being sent to Africa)


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 13, 2008, 02:29:01 am ---For that matter I have never had a legitimate buyer with who typed in what I call "African English", which is a mix of British English and US English with a major skew as to which words are more common, usually coupled with grammar and sentence structure that is incorrect for english, although perfectly correct for many African languages.

Your buyer does appear to be typing in African English.
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Exactly, and in ALL CAPS.  I swear, I really didn't think the email was real.


--- Quote ---Have you checked your paypal account to see if you actually got the money and the payment itself wasn't spoofed?
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Yup.  The money's there all right.  And the ALL CAPS email was even sent through eBay itself, so it shows up in my "In" box on ebay.com as opposed to have come from some other potentially spoofed source to LOOK like it was from eBay.

It's all just seems screwy.  But the money's there and it's a confirmed address....

koolmoecraig:
If it smells like shut.....

DaOld Man:
If the moneys there, why else would you not send the guy the item?
I hate to pay immediately (with paypal) for something I won , then have the guy wait several days before shipping it.
I would do like somunny suggested, send it with confirmation, and make sure paypal has indeed got the money from him.

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