mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@joyce4399 wrote:I canceled FOUR orders recently- one two months ago and the other three within the last few days. When an item of jewelry sells in minutes I am grateful. This was the first scam. I printed the label on a Friday. Since it was Friday, I didn't need to journey immediately to our local USPS to drop the pkg. eBay notified me quickly that the Buyer was NOT a registered user. eBay advised me NOT to ship. Fine. This was around Sept 10 2021. I waited two months to relist the item. Again, it sold in minutes- different Buyer- same general geographic area around Portland OR. I talked to eBay again. Again, they advised me to cancel so I did. I relisted again, this time within days of the canceled transaction. Item sold in minutes again- different Buyer- same general geographic area. Another cancel. Today, I received payment for another jewelry item, different Buyer, same general geographic area. Talked to eBay again. Address was for Allstate Insurance. I clicked to view their site. No way Allstate would put up such a pathetic web site. eBay advised me to cancel again, which I did this afternoon. All these Buyers had positive feedback and NO negative feedback. One of the Buyers had documented payment issues per eBay but no way for a Seller to know that from feedback. All the Buyers had an oriental version of their user ID along with their Anglicised version. When a Monet item sells within minutes of the listing (33,000 jewelry items for sale now), and then it happens again with a different Buyer, and then again and yet a fourth time, Feds need to get involved. eBay told me that the multiple cancelations would not reflect negatively on me. I want to believe, but my sales have recently dropped to zero. eBay needs to do something- I want to say stop screwing with the Search results by downgrading. Since I can't prove my position, I can't say it- even though I just did.
I'm glad that I don't normally sell jewelry. It hasn't been much fun for me so far.
This problem is a COMPLETELY different one that we were discussing here.
FYI Buyers will NEVER have negative FB unless they sell too. Buyers can't get negative or neutral FB.
Odd what Ebay is doing with you on this problem. You should gather all those different buyer IDs and contact Ebay again and give them all to Ebay. Ebay can tell if these accounts are connected and even possibly the same person. They won't tell you what they find, but if Ebay does find this buyer is doing this to get around an Ebay rule or to misbehave, they can stop them all together and they should so you don't go through this anymore.
https://twitter.com/askebay?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/eBayForBusiness/
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/How-do-I-contact-Customer-Support/m-p/32016431#M1783851
@femmefan1946 wrote:So you are of the opinion if a buyer asks you if you would be willing to ship via an expedited method that they were willing to pay for as well, they are a scammer?
Not necessarily.
But since the entire shipping industry has been carked for two years now, and the buyer wants a non-essential, high value, high fraud item with a deadline, and even without COVID delays it's the holiday mailing season, it seems sensible to be wary of making promises.
If the item doesn't arrive in time, the seller at best gets a negative feedback, which can kill a 14 FB's account.
Less worry about a scam, a term tossed about too easily here, than about damage to a new seller's account.
Well most everyone else on this thread seem to think it is a real issue. I simply don't understand it. The buyer was acting responsibly by asking the question and telling them she was willing to pay the expedited shipping.
I missed something. How much was the jewelry worth? What made it non essential? The buyer said it was for her daughter's wedding. That may have made if VERY essential. LOL
Sellers reluctant to do expedited shipping doesn't = a bad buyer. It only means the seller is reluctant to do it, nothing more.
Your assuming that the buyer would do that and there is no evidence to that end. You are drawing conclusions from a short SINGLE email to the seller that ONLY asked about shipping.
If this was all about the shipping, just say no to expediting it. It is why the buyer ASKED. They wanted to know if the seller would be willing to do it. I simply don't get it as to why this buyer is being spoke about so badly when they did NOTHING wrong. They were being VERY responsible by ASKING before buying?
