posted on November 5, 2006 04:20:57 PM
Very unusual buyer, IMHO, member since 3/04, but zero feedback and 0 items bid on in the past 30 days that you can search until the past 2 weeks or so and now has bid on 33 items, winning most of them. Some quite pricey. Leaves feedback after he/she pays via PayPal and all of the feedbacks (all positive, although she could not have received most of the items yet) state: please send a copy of the picture, I cannot access it from Ebay any more.
All of the pictures are clearly still there and why would you put that into your feedback. Does this seem strange to anyone else??Member for over 2 years and no activity and now BOOM bidding and very weird feedback statement. What do you think?
posted on November 5, 2006 04:51:39 PM
Could be nothing. Could be something. A real yellow flag raiser for sure. I'm not sure which way to go with that: contact buyer, contact ebay, contact paypal? Maybe contact paypal first since the real cocern is the payment and a hijacked account
posted on November 6, 2006 12:33:05 AM
merrie wrote: Very unusual buyer... zero feedback and 0 items bid on in the past 30 days that you can search until the past 2 weeks or so and now has bid on 33 items, winning most of them. Some quite pricey. Leaves feedback after he/she pays via PayPal and all of the feedbacks state: please send a copy of the picture, I cannot access it from Ebay any more.
Possibly a hijacked account. I'd refund any PayPal payment and wait a week or two to see if they are NARU'd. If not, request they pay again keeping close watch on their feedback. They have 45 days to reverse PayPal payments and that's when the stuff will usually hit the fan. PayPal's fraud detection software is supposed to protect you against problems but we all know that PayPal is really only interested in protecting themselves. Act accordingly.
