Does this look like a scam?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145373031310
Just ordered this.
Why is this couch so cheap? If its a scam, how can they scam?
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/145373031310
Just ordered this.
Why is this couch so cheap? If its a scam, how can they scam?
rdau_91
OP2 years agoLooks like the seller is under investigation/banned. Probably due to you guys reporting him 🙂
https://www.ebay.com/usr/good-8876
Spoke with customer support. Got a refund. Thank you all for the help. I learned my lesson
soh.maryl
·2 years agoJust curious: What lesson did you learn?
rdau_91
OP2 years agoThank you all for the replies! I much appreciate the advice.
I will take more caution in the future. I will keep you posted on what happens.
soh.maryl
·2 years agoYES, of course it's a scam.
When you have a question in the future about a listing, you need to come here first BEFORE you commit to buying.
Do you know what to do if (a) it does not arrive or (b) if it does arrive, but is not as described?
Have you read eBay's Money Back Guarantee for buyers?
Hope you will return here and let us know how this works out for you.
eburtonlab
·2 years agoIn general, you can avoid a lot of headaches by choosing to purchase only from established sellers that have recent and past positive feedback as a seller for selling items in the same category that you intend to buy. If someone is selling a dozen apple watches, but has no feedback, or only has feedback as a buyer, or only has feedback for selling dress patterns or fishing lures (actual examples I have seen), perhaps wait until they have a track record of positive feedback for selling electronics before you buy from them.
You might miss out on a good deal from a new seller once in a while, and nothing can guarantee that you won't still run into an issue anyway, but you can avoid a lot of potential problems by choosing to do business with established sellers. Anyone can put together a listing that looks nice -- it is not hard at all to simply copy an existing listing -- but it is much harder to create a history of consistent sales and positive feedback.
For more experienced sellers, you can learn a lot about the sort of seller you are dealing with by checking the seller's feedback page to see where the seller is registered and to notice if the seller has any negative feedback. If you see negatives indicated in the table of recent feedback, you can choose to exclusively see each type of comment by clicking on the numbers shown in the table. Reading negative or neutral comments can often tell you if a seller has a pattern of problems with items not matching the descriptions, canceled orders, late deliveries or item location misrepresentation.
If a seller has a pattern of too many serious negatives -- or just not enough positive history -- it is often better to find another seller with a better track record to do business with.
If you have made a purchase from a listing that you think may be suspicious:
Typically you have to wait until the last estimated delivery date has passed to start an Item Not Received claim on eBay; if the seller is removed and eBay does not send you a message about that, and if you can no longer find the item in your Purchase History or the Help page, you can start a similar process through your PayPal account (if you used PayPal) or through your credit card or other payment source. There are various deadlines that have to be met at each stage, and you must take care not to make more than one claim about a single transaction through eBay or PayPal or your funding source at a time or your claim may be dismissed.
If the seller actually ships something (but not your item) and can provide a tracking number that shows delivery, you must file a Not As Described claim (and typically return the item), as a valid tracking number that shows delivery would cause you to lose an Item Not Received claim. There are other scams that involve shipping an item to another location in your zip code which can complicate matters further.
If possible bookmark the seller's feedback page so that you can monitor that to see if the seller's account has been removed from eBay, just in case the item listing disappears.
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoIf you click on the item # ebay also brings up another seller with the same(ish) low price and a genuine listing for the same thing for $700 or so.
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoThe seller is already NRU.
deltilogical
·2 years agoMost of the time, you get what you pay for. Let us know what arrives! How do you even ship something like that?!
maxine*j
·2 years agoWhy would you order that? No one can sell something like that for $79.00. You would pay for more than that if it were secondhand and you picked it up yourself.
No one can afford to ship it for free, not even someone 20 miles from you much less from the other side of the planet. (The shortest distance, by air, from Sri Lanka to the U.S. is over 9,000 miles.)
Plus, the seller's feedback is terrible.
It is doubtless a scam and since you can see that for yourself, I cannot understand why you fell for it.
Good luck getting your money back, though.
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mtgraves7984
·2 years agoFor what it's worth... the seller's 93.8% feedback score is horrible. Avoid those sellers in the future. Good luck.
bennotbill
·2 years agoIt's probably like the ad I saw on the telly about online safety.
In the ad a man thought he had bought a bargain settee. When it arrived it was new and looked perfect. It did look perfect as it rested in his hand. Perfect for a dolls house.
White backgrounds can be misleading.
redmodelt
·2 years agoSeller is in Sri Lanka drop shipping more than likely from China.
Of course, it is in my opinion a scam. Good luck!
fab_finds4u
·2 years agoThe listing says it's out of stock.
Their negative feedback says they dropship from WalMart.
They aren't allowed to dropship from WalMart.
Soon, another Sri Lankan will bite the dust.
simba6
·2 years agoYes it looks like a scam. If would cost far more to ship it than it's being sold for. I suspect the fake tracking number scam where a cheap item is sent to a random address in your zip code. That is good enough for both eBay and paypal.
I hope you paid by credit card.
How to deal with it depends on what happens next. You will have to come back here and explain so we can try to help.