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Covering your butt with international shipping. **Edit: It was a SCAM!**

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Mauzy:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 16, 2009, 09:46:48 am ---
Ship the dude a broken ipod?

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Ha! I actually considered that for a moment. This actually got me reading the 419 forums. Some people get some pretty good laughs out of this ---meecrob--- bags.

Level42:
It often depends on _what_ you are selling. Any Ipod stuff and the likes are likely to receive scams.
Arcade hardware ? Much less likely.

It's really funny, I've been scammed only once and it was by an American from another arcade forum.

You should always use common sense national or international. And legal stuff is nice, but the costs of any legal action won't be worth it for such a relative low amount of money.

Also Hypernova is wrong. You agreed to a legal transaction by offering it on e-bay. It's a contract ! Technically you can't get away with it. This is for seller and buyer alike. Read the fine print.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Level42 on June 16, 2009, 04:46:34 pm ---
It's really funny, I've been scammed only once and it was by an American from another arcade forum.


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Of course, when I said you're much less likely to be scammed by an American I was talking to an American.  For you an American is a foreigner and then the same cautions apply.  Essentially scammers know that they are MUCH safer scamming someone in a different country.  So they do.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: Level42 on June 16, 2009, 04:46:34 pm ---Also Hypernova is wrong. You agreed to a legal transaction by offering it on e-bay. It's a contract ! Technically you can't get away with it. This is for seller and buyer alike. Read the fine print.
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Ooooooo!   :o  Like the fine print's ever stopped anyone. :)

I don't give that advice to anyone to ignore a transaction for any dumb reason.  I only gave the advice because let's face it, once the address was changed, everyone's spidey-sense was tingling.  He originally wanted to get out of the transaction.  Via a courteous email and a full refund, this is easily accomplished.  eBay has options to cancel transactions.

I just had to opt out of a transaction to Brazil (different one) because Paypal flagged the transaction and held it.  About a week later, the guy deactivates his account, and the following day, emails me about hoping the payment goes through.  Once he left eBay, I contacted Paypal, and had them refund his money that was held, and told the buyer it was over.

Now it's not the same situation, but similar results.

Mauzy:
I also got what turned out to be (after confirmed by ebay and paypal) fake pages saying that the address change was legit and a paypal page saying that $200 was put into my account ($50 more than the end price).

I've emailed ebay everything they've asked for (headers and such), so now its only a matter of time.

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