Locked
Discussions in this board are limited to the original poster and Community Mentors
Seller Beware?
Why would someone "offer" my asking price? Scam?
1 comment
Locked
Discussions in this board are limited to the original poster and Community Mentors
Why would someone "offer" my asking price? Scam?
comics-scifi-collectibles
Mentor3 years ago@robcla4458 Yes, 100% a scam. I would decline the offer and add the buyer to my blocked list:
https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock?
Once you accept the offer then they will want to send you a payment offsite ( which you never do) or pull some other type of scam.
Edit to add: I see you are new seller that is selling high priced items. Here's some advice that you might find helpful>>
1. The only way to avoid this problem is to list as Fixed Price immediate payment required, only NO auctions and NO best offers**.
**( eBay does have a new setting you can turn on to require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer. It is at the bottom of this page: https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements. This will not apply to auctions)
To have the immediate payment required option for Buy It Now listings you will need to change listing tools if you are using the Quick Listing Tool.
Sign up for Seller Hub while working from your computer to create your listing using the New Listing Tool.
A. Go to https://www.ebay.com/sh/landing
B. Click Start Using Seller Hub
C. To create a new listing go to your active listings page:
https://www.ebay.com/sh/lst/active and click the blue Create listing button near the top, right-hand side of the page.
D. The IPR box is located by selecting edit all fields in the payment section for this listing tool, then click on the blue hyper link for Payments Managed by eBay. On the next screen you will have the option for Immediate Payment Required.
2) If you have offers from suspicious buyers or they don't pay then add them to your blocked buyer list:
https://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BidderBlockLogin
3) If buyer doesn't pay then on the 5th day after sale cancel as buyer hasn't paid. This prevents the buyer from leaving feedback and they receive a strike. Final value sellers fees are not charged until an item is paid for.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/getting-paid/resolving-unpaid-items-buyers?id=4137&st=
4) Have you set up your shipping preferences and buyer requirements in account settings:
1. Exclude shipping locations
https://www.ebay.com/ship/prf/excludeRegions
2. Block buyers whose primary shipping address is in a location I don't ship to AND block buyers with 2 or more unpaid items in 12 months.
https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements
Buyer requirements:
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/setting-buyer-requirements?id=4152&st=