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I recently put my pristine Nikon D800e body on a well known sticky-plant site for sale. I received over half a dozen requests for me to post it overseas or to send posting details before payment was authorised. I knew they were trying to steal from me so I reported it to the sticky-plant fraud prevention team. It took them well over a week to reply to me! By this time I had changed my advert to Cash On Collection only, no PayPal (they were sending me false PayPal emails to get me to send them the product without payment first).
Well, I still received further fraudsters trying it on, they hadn't even read the advert but wanted me to send it to them. Suddenly my advert disappeared from the site and I've now found out from them that "I" breached their rules (I don't know how as I am the honest seller) and they would not let me use their site in the future! Is their fraud prevention policy to simply remove sellers accounts to remove the problem and ignore the criminals? I don't know as they also said they would not discuss any further correspondence with me!
I then went to sell my camera on another well known auction site but was warned of yet another type of scam used on that site. This is where the seller sends the item, it is received and the 'buyer' then says it is either defective or incorrectly listed, they then send back a package for which they have a proof of posting certificate. When the seller receives it they find a carboard box with a brick inside. By this time the 'buyer' has received a full refund from PayPal and keeps the camera.
It seems to me that there is a lot of this happening, am I correct or paranoid? The second scenario has not happened to me but I am wary of advertising it on there in case it does.
Well, I still received further fraudsters trying it on, they hadn't even read the advert but wanted me to send it to them. Suddenly my advert disappeared from the site and I've now found out from them that "I" breached their rules (I don't know how as I am the honest seller) and they would not let me use their site in the future! Is their fraud prevention policy to simply remove sellers accounts to remove the problem and ignore the criminals? I don't know as they also said they would not discuss any further correspondence with me!
I then went to sell my camera on another well known auction site but was warned of yet another type of scam used on that site. This is where the seller sends the item, it is received and the 'buyer' then says it is either defective or incorrectly listed, they then send back a package for which they have a proof of posting certificate. When the seller receives it they find a carboard box with a brick inside. By this time the 'buyer' has received a full refund from PayPal and keeps the camera.
It seems to me that there is a lot of this happening, am I correct or paranoid? The second scenario has not happened to me but I am wary of advertising it on there in case it does.