@ittybitnot wrote:
The email was not from the real buyer of the item. It was from a scammer who would send a fake PayPal email saying the item had been paid for and it was okay to ship, hoping the OP would ship the item to him/her.
Not necessarily. They still have on occasion the "commit to buy " button that does not require immediate payment. If indeed the listing is still active, then the ebay message is phony to be sure.
Otherwise, if it ended with a scammer bidder of record, it is a whole other issue that is not a "happy seller experience" either. Scammers will indeed "outbid" each other on an auction format listing just to be able to send the "give me your paypal email address" notice.
Yes, that could well be what happened.
I made my comment based on the following assumptions:
- that the OP sold on the id s/he posted with;
- the OP does not have any active listings on the id s/he posted with, so I then assumed the item in question was the sold listing that shows on the id;
- the sold listing ended with a "best offer accepted" item that was originally fixed price, not an auction.
Again, the above were assumptions, and any one of those could render my original comment null and void. And incorrect. LOL!
Maybe the OP will return to tell us if an item was really sold, and whether the real buyer was the person named in the original post or someone different.
