Puerto Rico multiple purchases

[cdecker457]

Is it weird to receive two orders for different items from buyers in Puerto Rico within a few days of each other?

[12345jamesstamps]

If you are selling basically the thing item...not really.

They might know each other. Were the items the gloves? That would be normal then.

[nyr134]

No weirder than getting two orders from, say, Iowa or Nevada within a few days of each other.

[kmcangel2012]

Not considering Ebay's rolling visibility algorithm. look at the rest of your orders and see how many are grouped by region even within the lower 48....

[wastingtime101]

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@cdecker457 wrote:

Is it weird to receive two orders for different items from buyers in Puerto Rico within a few days of each other?

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Why do you think it's weird @cdecker457 ?

[chapeau-noir]

It's kind of weird to me, too, but I can guess why it happens - the same thing that brings up cohort of like-items when one sells a certain thing. I sold two pair of bike shoes once within a day of each other (I had only three pair left), another time I had several sales all from Grapevine, TX - that is not a small town so folks running into one another at the supermarket and talking about how ahmaazing Chapeau-noir on eBay is didn't seem particularly likely. 🤔 

[714ricki · Accepted solution]

It happens from time to time.....not weird at all. If paid, just ship the items as soon as possible per your shipping requirements & don't over think things. 

Happy Halloween & be thankful for the two sales!! 😎👻

[cdecker457]

Thank you for your feedback.

[cdecker457]

Let's see, eBay has a history with scams originating outside of the U.S. in the past several years. Online scams of Americans is rather commonplace.  And I'm paranoid!

[lepke1979]

No.

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[esco_2927]

It happens to me also I get a lot of orders from Puerto Rico like in a row I don’t know why and I have to cancel it cause i don’t ship there is it a scam??

[annadryl]

Exactly why don't you ship there? They have a 5-digit US zip code, what's the issue? It's not Nigeria, it's the US. And you have low-priced small-risk items, not scam magnets.

[turtles-trading-post]

You don't ship there?  Puerto Rico is a US Possession.  It is the United States of America!  No different than shipping to Maryland!

[chapeau-noir]

Puerto Rico is nice - great food, too.

[the-hook-and-the-loop]

I get orders from P.R. everyday. I love P.R. They are my best customers. Never had a problem with about 1,000 orders.