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Hello I found  a nice car on Facebook and I contacted  the person  selling they said it is going threw ebay and I got a ebay invoice  from this email

ebay-motors@paypoint-dept.com

Is this a scam or real ?

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@justinwinc_54 

 

That's an old scam we hear about all the time.

Ebay has nothing to do with items found on other sites.

Report the ad to FB.

Have a great day
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I don't mean to sound mean but do you really think you can find a 2003 Tacoma in any running condition for $800 with free shipping when the shipping will probably cost $1,200?

How old are you?

Do you know they sell for?

BITCOIN isn't even an accepted payment method on eBay. 

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Beware scammers who advertise on other sites and tell you that the transaction will be handled through eBay.

 

That is not how eBay works. eBay does not rely on users finding ads on Facebook or other sites 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 about avoiding such scams (US links):

 

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, find the vehicle on eBay and complete the checkout process on eBay, so that the item appears in your Purchase History. Then you typically meet the seller to inspect the vehicle, pay the seller, and collect the keys, title and vehicle.

 

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.

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"threw" or "though"?

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@fab_finds4u wrote:

I don't mean to sound mean but do you really think you can find a 2003 Tacoma in any running condition for $800 with free shipping when the shipping will probably cost $1,200?

How old are you?

Do you know they sell for?

BITCOIN isn't even an accepted payment method on eBay. 


You are not being mean, just truthful. At the very least they decided to check up on this, instead of submitting payment and then coming here seeing how to recoup their loss. Maybe they did think something was odd. 

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Probably "through".

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