Scammers

[toort891]

I sold 3 items and all by the same person bought them . I send them a email to pay and they asked for my email . Told them to get it from eBay . I’m sure it’s a scam . Is there a way to report the buyer . I had bids on the items and he bought them all and hasn’t paid . I’m sure he won’t . Anything I can do . Of have to listen again and see if it don’t happen again 

[kensgiftshop]

@toort891 

A new seller, selling expensive items, it'll be hard to find a real buyer.

If they don't pay, on day 5, cancel the order for nonpayment and add the ID to your blocked buyers list.

To cut down on most of the scammers, do away with auctions and list as a fixed price with immediate payment required.

[woodland_gnome]

You are a new seller selling expensive items. You are going to attract more scammers than legitimate buyers. To keep the scammers from committing to buy your item (and tying it while you go through the unpaid item process) don't use auctions or Best Offer. List as fixed-price Buy It Now only and set the BIN to Immediate Payment Required. You will have to use the Business Tool (link at top right of the Quick Listing Tool eBay pushes on new sellers) to get the options to choose Immediate Payment Required and no Best Offer.

eBay is experimenting with requiring pre-authorization for payment when a buyer makes a Best Offer but that's just an experiment and not applicable to all offerors. Otherwise auctions and Best Offer allow the buyer to promise to pay in order to scam you. Note that anyone requesting you to contact them outside the eBay message system (email or text or phone) is almost certainly a scammer trying to get your contact information (e.g. to send you a fake payment message).

You  have to wait the 4 full calendar days eBay gives buyers to pay and cancel for non-payment.  This will eventually render the scammer account useless (but the scammers can make new disposable accounts quicker than eBay can toss out the old ones).