Can Anyone figure out the Scam?? | Selling

netboy27 · 2023-01-13T22:14:29.896000Z

I just ran into a weird situation. I was selling individual baseball cards from a set, and made variations for the different card #'s. So, I had about 200 different cards you could buy from my one listing at $1 each. I had the listing up for about 2 months, maybe sold 10 of the cards in that time period. Then, whammo, I sold one after the other after the other throughout the day. At 1st, I thought "great"...then I looked at the bidders...all with feedback of 4 or less. I stopped the auction after 14 cards sold to take a look 'cause of the weirdness of so many sales, etc. The profiles were all created on 2 specific dates in 2020, the shipping addresses were all over the country...except 2 purchasers' shipping addresses was the same NAME and shipping distribution center in Oregon.I've been selling/buying on ebay for 20 years plus, so I'm not a newbie..... something about all of this didn't pass the smell test (the sudden interest in the cards, the low feedback ratings, the similar profile start dates). But, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what the scam may have been. I was paid for each of these $1 cards! All should be good with the world. Before shipping, I called Ebay and laid out my concern. They had me cancel the transactions (14 at that time) using the "Problem with buyer address" code. The Ebay rep said it wouldn't count against me...She also showed my exactly how to go into my settings and limit buyers based on feedback if they have a 1 to 5 rating, you can select the exact rating #. I did it just for now (no bidders less than 5), will take off the restriction after a period of time...I don't think I'm at a big scam risk, but the whole thing gave me the creeps. I've sold to and bought to low feedback bidders a bunch without issues. But what are the chances of all of the interest in my cards being from only low feedback folks...didn't pass the smell test..My only conclusion is that for some reason, there is a scheme to conduct low cost purchases to bump up feedback ratings, maybe to do something else later on to me or someone else???....weird.

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