06-12-2020 11:12 AM
Yeah I am contacting the lady on Craigslist about a four-wheeler and two told me that four wheeler is in eBay holding and if I wanted to give her my name my address and my phone number and someone from eBay Motors to contact me and send me the four-wheeler to test for 5 days then you can get paid is that how they work
06-12-2020 11:19 AM - edited 06-12-2020 11:21 AM
NO! IT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!
This is an old scam that comes around every now and then. There have been dozens of threads about it lately.
DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ANY INFORMATION ABOUT YOU. eBay Motors does not act as a go-between for anyone or anything. They do not hold funds in escrow, they do not ship cars for people, they do not do anything this person has claimed they do.
If you have any opportunity to report the person or the ad to Craigslist, I would urge you do to so immediately. They are scamming you or someone like you.
06-12-2020 11:19 AM
That is not how eBay works. eBay does not rely on users finding ads on Facebook and sending contact information to a seller. Likely the seller will send a phony "invoice" that appears to be from eBay but is not, asking you to pay with gift cards to have the vehicle shipped to you for a free evaluation period.
eBay has no warehouse and does not ship vehicles. eBay does not handle such transactions or provide "vehicle protection orders". Scammers often promise those things, though. Any phone number you may receive on such an "invoice" does not connect to eBay, but to the scammer.
Anyone that asks you to purchase gift cards or to send card codes to them to complete a transaction is trying to take advantage of you. Anyone asking for a gift card is looking for a gift at your expense. Once anyone else knows the code, your money will be gone and you will have no recourse.
See here for some info:
https://pages.motors.ebay.com/buy/security/index.html
https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/online-vehicle-sale-fraud
The only way to purchase a vehicle on eBay is to sign in to eBay.com, find the vehicle on eBay and complete the checkout process on eBay. You may have to pay a deposit. Then you typically meet the seller to inspect the vehicle and pay the seller.
If you encountered an ad on another site, contact that site to have the ad removed. eBay is not involved with any ads listed on sites other than eBay itself.