Beware of Cheater/Scam in eBay. I am one of the victim. Solution to their "Trick".

[kevinthoo]

For all the buyers at eBay

Please be aware of some sellers who try to "Cheat" your money. 

Some sellers at eBay, they will put a very attractive item and price for sell. Once you bought that item they will request for "transaction cancellation directly" (Do not fall into their trick). 

-If you accepted the transaction cancellation request, then you will "unable to put Negative Feedback" at their account, and more victims will be involved. This is something that the cheaters' (seller) plan, which is to request for item cancellation as soon as you paid for the item, if you accepted the transaction cancellation request without putting any negative feedback at their account. They can proceed to cheat other buyers with their so called "100% Positive Feedback with 0 negative feedback". 

Solution

- Be calm, wait for a while and contact the seller for more information (Note: They will surely give you tons of lame excuses and don't simply trust them). Think of it, they have to go through some procedures before they can put an item for sale. So don't tell me you accidentally listed the item for sale this and that. 

- If you found that he is a cheater. Please remember to give him a super duper negative feedback before you accept the transaction cancellation.

- Since you have already pay for the item and incident happened. No worry dude, eBay or PayPal will protect you (the only problem is you need to wait*(May be few weeks)) and give you back your money/refund.

*****For PayPal - Open a dispute right away with "Item not received" (Normally PayPal will suggest you to deal with the seller first, since he is a cheater I believe he is not going to give you back the money). Once a dispute is opened wait for a certain days like (10 days if i am not wrong). Then you will have an option to escalate this issue to PayPal. With this "escalate" option, PayPal will step in and settle the problem for you and you will need to wait another "TONS OF DAYS" before you could get back your money. 

So Good Luck to all the buyers at eBay.

[7606dennis]

My advice would be to vet one's sellers carefully before committing to buy from them.  Also make sure that you don't let anyone string you along past deadlines required by the MBG. 

In addition, I would caution buyers to beware.  If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. 

With regard to sellers trying to get a buyer to engage in an off eBay transaction, don't worry about feedback, report the attempt to eBay immediately.  Saving the seller's communication as evidence.

[myboardid]

There are plenty of  legitimate reasons why a seller would ask a buyer to cancel.  When a seller does that, eBay punishes him with a defect, so it is something he would want to avoid if possible.  If the buyer agrees to cancel the seller is not punished.  As soon as the seller goes through the cancellation process the money is automatically returned to the buyer. 

[kevinthoo]

Dude. I don't really agree with your "If something sounds too good to be true". I will sell my good conditioned Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 6GB for $75 (USD) not even need to bid, so is that "sounds good to be true"? I will say sometimes you can only "TRY YOUR BEST TO AVOID BEING CHEATED". You yourself can't even guarantee that you wouldn't be cheated in your entire life. Yet I gave the buyers a guide if they fallen into the trick.  Yet one more thing.. "As long as the seller follow the transaction cancellation, and the buyers will get back their refund really soon????????" That only happen when the seller is COOPERATING with you. Why I need to wait more than one month to get my money back now? (I haven't even get my money yet) 

Sigh... anyway, may be you are just trying to help. Thanks 

[7606dennis]

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@kevinthoo wrote:

Dude. I don't really agree with your "If something sounds too good to be true". I will sell my good conditioned Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 6GB for $75 (USD) not even need to bid, so is that "sounds good to be true"? I will say sometimes you can only "TRY YOUR BEST TO AVOID BEING CHEATED". You yourself can't even guarantee that you wouldn't be cheated in your entire life. Yet I gave the buyers a guide if they fallen into the trick.  Yet one more thing.. "As long as the seller follow the transaction cancellation, and the buyers will get back their refund really soon????????" That only happen when the seller is COOPERATING with you. Why I need to wait more than one month to get my money back now? (I haven't even get my money yet) 

Sigh... anyway, may be you are just trying to help. Thanks 

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Since the title of the thread seems to be a warning about being scammed and how to avoid it, I'll stand by my advice that if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.  

[7606dennis]

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@myboardid wrote:

There are plenty of  legitimate reasons why a seller would ask a buyer to cancel.  When a seller does that, eBay punishes him with a defect, so it is something he would want to avoid if possible.  If the buyer agrees to cancel the seller is not punished.  As soon as the seller goes through the cancellation process the money is automatically returned to the buyer. 

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While I agree that there are legitimate reasons for a seller to request that the buyer agree to a cancellation, based on the content of the OP's original post, I did not believe that to be the case in this particular instance.

[7606dennis]

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@kevinthoo wrote:

Dude. I don't really agree with your "If something sounds too good to be true". I will sell my good conditioned Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 6GB for $75 (USD) not even need to bid, so is that "sounds good to be true"? I will say sometimes you can only "TRY YOUR BEST TO AVOID BEING CHEATED". You yourself can't even guarantee that you wouldn't be cheated in your entire life. Yet I gave the buyers a guide if they fallen into the trick.  Yet one more thing.. "As long as the seller follow the transaction cancellation, and the buyers will get back their refund really soon????????" That only happen when the seller is COOPERATING with you. Why I need to wait more than one month to get my money back now? (I haven't even get my money yet) 

Sigh... anyway, may be you are just trying to help. Thanks 

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Oh!  By the way, I really can't agree with your comment advising someone to leave negative feedback before accepting the cancellation.  Frankly, feedback should, in my opinion, be the last thing on one's mind during a transaction.

[fab_finds4u]

The seller gets a defect when they cancel, and their transaction and processing fee PayPal  charged is not reimbursed.  Your money should be refunded automatically when they cancel the transaction. It costs the seller money if they cancel.  AND the seller does not need your permission to cancel.  

[kevinthoo]

Sigh... whatever it is.. but it happened to me. I know eventually the transaction will be cancelled without my consent if i do not give a respond to the request. At least if i know it is a trick (Or I confirmed he 90% is a cheater), I can do something to his account. I know eBay will do something with it, but i don't care i want EVERYONE (especially buyers) to know that HE/SHE is a cheater, who cheated the money that people work hard to earn.