I received an offer

[barb._58]

I received an offer on an item I have for sale. What is the next step? The buyer wants me to text or call them and the whole point was to do transactions through ebay. Ho do I proceed, this is my first time selling on e-bay.

[wooden_flower]

Any 'buyer' that

asks you to text or email them outside of eBay

offers more than your asking price

asks you to add a gift card

asks for your paypal address

is trying to scam you.  Ignore, decline the offer, put them on your blocked list.

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock?

[ezezao-0]

You may want to rethink selling very expensive items here.

If you're asking the questions you're asking now, you'd be a target for a scam.

[duncanvr]

If they ask to call or text outside of ebay you are going to be scammed! Your trying to sell a $3000 item on here with no feedback? You need to be aware your item can be stolen and you can lose the money to. You should take that listing down and read up on known ebay scams. Plenty of posts on here about people who got scammed selling a high ticket item as a brand new account. Don't do it, your a sitting duck to get scammed listing high value like that.

[luckythewinner]

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@barb._58 wrote:

I received an offer on an item I have for sale. What is the next step? The buyer wants me to text or call them and the whole point was to do transactions through ebay. Ho do I proceed, this is my first time selling on e-bay.

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How you proceed is to ignore the request to text him, because he is a scammer and is not interested in buying your item. 

[femmefan1946]

This is a scam and should be ignored.

A real offer would come through eBay Messages and will include a button allowing you to accept, refuse, or counter offer. You can also ignore it, but that is a little rude.

If you want to accept but you did not include the Best Offer option, you can go back to your listing, click on Revise (top left) scroll down to Price on the Sell Your Item form, and click on Allow Best Offer.

Then you can set the lowest price you would accept with no other discussion and the price below which you would certainly never accept.

There can be as little as a penny difference between these. If there is a gap you will see the offers you might consider and again accept, refuse or counter offer.

But this is a SCAM! So don't bother.

For your possible real offer, tell the customer you have now set up Best Offer on the listing and invite him to use it.

Since the "offer" you describe is a Scam, he won't.

But a real customer will and then the sale procedes normally with payment made through your Paypal account.

[cubano4u]

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@barb._58 wrote:

I received an offer on an item I have for sale. What is the next step? The buyer wants me to text or call them and the whole point was to do transactions through ebay. Ho do I proceed, this is my first time selling on e-bay.

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This is a scammer and not an actual buyer. Do not reply and just move along. As a new seller you are a magnet for scammers so this will happen to you again until you rack up much more feedback. Learn how to spot them and move away from the. You can do this. 

[coolections]

$3000 for a pokemon card (WOW), people have waaaay toooo much money. With that said it is definitely a scam. Do not reply and make sure you block the person who asked. Also, if I where you, just use a reasonable BIN with  immediate payment required. You also need signature confirmation and the extra shipping insurance. One last thing: for a card that expensive I would have it graded and slabbed.

[bigdeals.etc]

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@barb._58 wrote:

I received an offer on an item I have for sale. What is the next step? The buyer wants me to text or call them and the whole point was to do transactions through ebay. Ho do I proceed, this is my first time selling on e-bay.

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[jayjaspersgarage]

I would start to think the scam is the original question.  Account since 1/9/2021 listing a single $3,000 item seems like something ebay would not allow.  Maybe it's just me but is it from Sri Lanka?  The number of ridiculous beginner questions on the boards since New Years have increased immensely and is highly suspect. 

I don't believe half of the questions posted by brand new accounts over the past two weeks are serious.  When I started I didn't even know there was a message board.  I was too focused on looking for old 1970's brass belt buckles to list and spent a week researching how much 1911 baseball cards sold for before listing them.

Low and behold that the clicker who gave a "helpful" to the original post is selling from........Sri Lanka.

[glorybells]

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@jayjaspersgarage wrote:

I would start to think the scam is the original question.  Account since 1/9/2021 listing a single $3,000 item seems like something ebay would not allow.  Maybe it's just me but is it from Sri Lanka?  The number of ridiculous beginner questions on the boards since New Years have increased immensely and is highly suspect. 

I don't believe half of the questions posted by brand new accounts over the past two weeks are serious.  When I started I didn't even know there was a message board.  I was too focused on looking for old 1970's brass belt buckles to list and spent a week researching how much 1911 baseball cards sold for before listing them.

Low and behold that the clicker who gave a "helpful" to the original post is selling from........Sri Lanka.

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A theory that has been tossed around recently is that perhaps the Sri Lanka users who are trying to (illegally) sell here were told that posting on the boards - posting ANYTHING on the boards - would help their page views and placement in search results.