Scammers on high value electronics item (computer graphics card)

[swigerb]

I am trying to sell my Nvidia 4090 graphics card as I upgraded to a 5090 (was lucky to get one). I am getting a LOT of scam accounts that "buy" my item and send suspicious messages and have suspicious amounts of positive feedback on low value transactions.

Why is eBay infected with all these scammers now that will receive a high value item, claim it to be broken or defective, only to have eBay refund the money and the buyer never truly ship the item back...although use USPS trickery to show it shipped, and never receive the item and they keep both the item and the money? Is this platform useless now? Is eBay listening or fixing all these scam artists?

Is there anything else I can do to elevate or escalate this issue? I just want to sell my WORKING and PERFECTLY FINE video card to someone and have eBay happily take their 13.6% fee.

I did lose $50 already because I jumped the gun and bought a 2-day FedEx shipping label to ship the item, but my gut told me to investigate the buyer after a suspicious message came through. I investigated deeply and found the account and person to be a known scammer and canceled the order. Can I get the $50 FedEx shipping label money back or am I out that cash? If so, I'd rather be out $50 than my $2000 for my video card.

[theha-31]

Just wanted to add my experience to this thread as a warning,

[Buyer] tried buying a 4090 off of me and then i saw this thread, they warned me about scammers trying to change shipping address before two messages showed up in my feed right after they paid for the order.
I would've gone through with the order but I saw this thread. I cancelled the order as eBay told me if i wasn't confident in the purchase I should just cancel after talking to customer support.

My story matches up with reddit user who had a similar experience after DMing them, though they stated it was not the same user

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1k0ar9w/ebay_buyer_stole_my_rtx_4090s_gpu_chip/

"I didn't take about this in my initial post, but yeah the split second they paid I got two scam messages trying to request shipping address change"

I recently relisted my item in hopes of getting a different buyer and bsd-itpurchaser tried to make an offer on it again, this time i noticed buyparts2019 also made a similar offer but if I look at the shipping address of both accounts they matched up to the same address.

https://badbuyerlist.org/buyer/4ab0bc7b81a24b9073f201eb

buyparts2019 is listed under bad buyers on badbuyerlist.org for abusing disputes with the credit card company with the same name "Angela Jiang" 

"The buyer purchased an item then opens a dispute with the credit card company stating not as described. She first opened it up stating the item hadn't arrived. I provided tracking that it had. Then, she opened up another stating not as described. Apparently, she can do this with her CC company and will get refunded AND keep the item. It's the perfect scam to have the credit card company as your accomplice."

[kabilab]

Swiger, read ittybitnot's reply, paying special attention to the second paragraph.