eBay sale via freight forwarding abroad?
Hello,
I have the following question:
I recently put my motorcycle up for sale on eBay. I just received an email from the Netherlands saying he'd like to buy the motorcycle, without asking any major questions about the vehicle. He wants to transfer the stated amount of €4,700 to my account via bank transfer and, once the money is available, have his shipping company (EMS Speedpost Transport Company) pick it up. That sounds good to me at first, but are there any scams or something similar that could mean I won't get my money?
I would be very grateful for helpful answers.
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This is a well-known scam and ours is often even so blue-eyed to believe the money will get safe if it is on our account.
Usually the object of sale is completely irrelevant, it only has to be something for which money is to be transferred. A “error” then occurs during the transfer. For some reason, you get more money than the purchase price would be. Then a mail comes that explains what happened with the request to cancel and send back the too much money, but then with a money transfer (e.g. WesternUnion). As an honest seller, you do this and a few days later it comes out that the transfer by phishing has been done unlawfully or you simply realize that international transfers can also be re-booked.
You will be cheated by a relatively small amount that you have sent back. So strictly ignore bidders from abroad! The Allermists are only on such a fraud (and although quite well-known still strongly seduce).
Leave the fingers of either he pays and when the device has been picked up, he reports a foreign access to his account – it is booked back. Or it is the Nigeria connection that is similar to the procedure. The end is that you’re losing your money and the motorcycle. I wouldn’t sell it abroad.
In the offer text countries exclude nothing, because foreigners often cannot read German. They’re just looking at pictories. In the Ebay settings, you need to exclude the countries you don’t send into, and you don’t get bids: http://cgi5.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ExcludeShippingList
Put him on your bidder locklist so he can’t offer you again: http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BidderBlockLogin
Here you can make further settings: http://offer.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerBlockPreferences. At all, it is worth going through the ebay settings point by point, as you can make settings that largely protect you.
If money is really on your account and it comes from the one who is the buyer, there can no longer be much wrong.
However, there will probably be a scam á la you will get an alleged mail from the bank that the money will be released only after shipment or so expire.
I guess that’s what I think, yes. I think it’s better to leave my fingers off.
Thank you!
If you’re smart, you can get it
If you have the money, the spedition can come
Under NO circumstances, the cart goes away without coal
No matter what excuses
Then nix can actually happen
I’ve been thinking
A good basis of mistrust is certainly not wrong. But if he pays by transfer, you don’t have a risk. However, the coal must of course go to your account and not to any dubious trust bank.
If the money is there, you can send a short mail and free the pickup. If you keep yourself away from questionable links, everything is in butter. Provided that such are sent….
There are not only criminals and day thieves in this beautiful world!
Sales to Croatia, Czech Republic. And everything went smoothly!
This is an old-known scam.
Such a website with an alleged forwarding with Treunandservice is quickly programmed.
The scams that vary. But if you think about three seconds, you don’t realize that’s so stupid to buy a vehicle he’s never seen before.
Goods against cash, everything else is nonsense.
The usual scam is running so that the alleged buyer wants to pay any price and wants to put something on it for the expenses.
Either you get paid with stolen money, or you’ll get an email with an alleged cash receipt. The following forwarding or bank is also freely invented. Such a website is quickly programmed.
And then it’s getting ripped. You must pay 400 euros again for any customs formalities. And once on the hook, more and more absurd stories are beaten.
Let the fingers of it
I think the best..