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@atikovi wrote:So one of these reshippers is going to go through the hassle of adding a new address to their account for every sale?
Yes.
@city*satins wrote:So one of these reshippers is going to go through the hassle of adding a new address to their account for every sale?
I'm thinking yes. No rule against the buyer, the payer, and the recipient all being different people.
For example, my daughter can buy a gift for her aunt and I can pay for it, and the ship-to on the payment can be her aunt's.
Nobody is in trouble for that and there's no loss of anybody's ( seller or buyer) protection
Where this has been a problem was seen in a case where a seller sold an item and then bought it from a department store, paying for it with a credit card (I don't remember if it was a department store credit card or another card) AND had it shipped to the eBay buyer. The seller then defaulted on the credit card payment and the department store went after the eBay buyer for the $$. Perhaps someone can bring that case up. Not entirely relevant to this situation but potentially so.
You are thinking of a triangulation scam, I believe.
Seller uses a stolen credit card to dropship items ... The fraud is not detected until after the item ships.
There was a rash of posts about one of the major pet supply stores a while back (a few years ago). Apparently, the site's fraud detection was not up to par and scammers were hitting them hard with the stolen cards 😞 I vaguely remember one buyer being asked by the supplier for reimbursement ... but the buyer was not liable.
Triangulation schemes usually go hand-in-hand with hijacked accounts
@city*satins wrote:Triangulation? OK. Cool word for not a cool scam.
The incident I recall hearing about this concerned a Chanel or other high end designer handbag. As if it wasn't bad enough, the buyer paid the seller less than retail but the department store went after the buyer for the retail price. So it was doubly triple horrible. I wish I could recall the outcome of this. (for the buyer, I mean. I think the seller ended up with a prison sentence.)
That's usually a pretty accurate sign that it is a triangulation scam ..... brand new, brand name item for a lot less than retail. "Too good to be true".
On big ticket items, I can see the retailer going after the person in possession of the stolen item ... they would want it back at the very least.
