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LOL Sold first item to someone in Nigeria?

Posted Nov-23-07 15:54:10 PST

Just started selling on e-bay and sold first item to someone in Nigeria. LOL Just our luck......... Our listing says US sales only and still after 10 legit bids the  high bidder was from Nigeria. They sat in wait til last min. and put in the (their only bid) winning bid.

This person hijacked someone's account and bid on our items and made the mailing destination to be Nigeria. Seems that as a new seller we are the perfect target for such a scam.

Seems they look for first time sellers and hopefully get us to be so happy for the sale that we mail out our item after a phoney payment is made.

Not sure how they were going to suggest payment because Ebay caught wind of this after we started asking them (ebay)questions. Ebay cancelled the whole auction and will cancel all our charges. They have asked us to relist. Which we will do for sure.

Is this common? What other scams should we watch for. LOL trying to make money for puppy's hips and we get scammed.....

Anyways, hope you had a great Thanksgiving and we  hope you enjoy your long weekend......................P.S. Rosie say Hi! 

 

 

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masked_*_lady
hope ya don't get scammed, haven't heard of a sale from Nigeria yet that wasn't a scam, i hope your the first....
Nov-23-07 15:56:10 PST Report this comment
new_dawn_4_claire
Happens all the time.....check out the bidders as they come and check everything you can about final buyer. Nasty thing to have to deal with.......lucky you had the good sense to smell a rat.
Nov-23-07 15:56:54 PST Report this comment
masked_*_lady
it's best NOT to ship world wide and pick and choose the countries you will send to because there are restrictions to certain countries and more countries than others are full of scammers.
Nov-23-07 15:59:00 PST Report this comment
new_dawn_4_claire
kitten....watch out! happens all the time! My mum had her account taken over by someone from Nigeria!
Nov-23-07 15:59:41 PST Report this comment
rosieswagon
Thanks Kitten and Claire.........Who woulda thunk it, first item and hello Nigeria calling.....Guess I saw something on TV about this sort of stuff and that set up some RED flags...........
Nov-23-07 16:00:27 PST Report this comment
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