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Someone sent me an offer on an identical item that I am selling
So, I have a question cause this is a first for me. I have something listed on ebay and someone sent me an offer for $35 for the exact same item. I accepted the offer thinking they were making ME an offer (because I have Or Best Offer) and now Ebay wants me to pay this person. I thought the offer was for MY item, not some random seller who must have picked me out of a list of people selling the same thing (this seller's and their item was never on my watchlist so I don't know how they got my name or knew I was selling the same thing). Is this a scam to make me buy their item by tricking me into thinking they were making an offer on MY exact same item? It feels VERY scammy to me.
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kh-leslie
·2 years agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
zappy17
·2 years agoThe exact thing just happened to me and actually it is more than $200 that the seller wants me to pay. I too thought she was offering to buy my item...
nocturnaljen
·2 years agoI had the same thing. However, it WAS my item that I was selling and Ebay sent me an offer of 5% off. I thought it was from a buyer or watcher NOT Ebay sending the offer of my own item to me!!? And good luck trying to find help as to how why it happened. I had to cancel my own item.
clarkmiracle
·5 years agoThis happened to me recently except in reverse. I had 6 watchers on my item and sent an offer via the eBay offer option, not knowing who the 6 watchers were or who else eBay would send it to.
Someone bought it from the offer sent and then immediately asked to cancel because they said they had one exactly like it listed and thought they were receiving an offer on their item. Now my item is taken down and not available to the other watchers to buy or whoever the offer went to.
I get this can happen and honest mistakes do happen, but we all need to be a bit more careful if we are accepting offers on items to make sure it is an offer on our item and not to buy an item that we browsed or watched when listing our own items. Put the shoe on the other foot, not everyone is a scammer.
zappy17
·2 years agoThat's good to know. The mistake happens because of the wording of the offer...it really seems like someone is making an offer to you.