Shipped a watch but the buyer is not paid yet -

[hathya-0]

I sold a watch and shipped the watch but the buyer has not paid the money yet. I got duped by his email scam which asked me to ship the watch after which the payment will be released to my paypal account. The buyer is evading and not responding to my emails yet. please HELP.  How can I report this scam buyer? 

[dirk12955]

Where's the watch?

How'd you ship it?

If not delivered,   Try to intercept it?

Don't give up,   yet.

[postingid2017]

Your best bet is to file Mail Fraud w/usps - go to their website for the link to file - sorry you lost not only the watch and the money.

[mrdutch1001]

My guess is you will be out both the watch and the $. You fell for a scam...

As you are a new seller, you were a target by scammers >which seems to be the way of the world these days..

as you are in the USA that means you should be in Managed Payments and thereby all sales monies are deposited to a bank account not PayPal.  New sellers listing/selling expensive items at auction format are truly asking for trouble.

 A fixed price format with Immediate payment required is the way to go, as that method requires a buyer to pay for the item immediately = they cannot purchase without making the payment.

your "buyer" is a scammer and will not be heard from again. They have your watch and you have neither the watch nor the money.

You can report this person, but I doubt the outcome will be to your satisfaction.

[kensgiftshop]

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@hathya-0 wrote:

How can I report this scam buyer? 

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Since you took the transaction off of Ebay, there's nothing you can do here.

Did they want overnight shipping?

[ittybitnot]

@hathya-0 

It sounds like your responded to a person that asked that you "text them" or carry on communications off the eBay site.   Sellers do not receive PayPal payments for eBay sales anymore.  The wanted your email address to send you fake payment notices.  Unfortunately, you are not going to get any money, and hopefully you did not ship it to a US freight forwarder address, and will be able to report this to law enforcement.  You can report the buyer to eBay, and cancel the sale for non-payment on day 5.  You are not going to get any money, and unless you can recall that camera before it is delivered, you will never see that again either.  I am so sorry you were tricked. 

Newish sellers with no feedback selling high priced desirable items are SCAM MAGNETS here,  and criminals  will be on you like white on rice for quite some time. 

[hathya-0]

Its already delivered. Shipped it via Fedex. 

[slippinjimmy]

https://www.usa.gov/stop-scams-frauds

https://www.ic3.gov/

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/on-the-internet

You should also report to eBay

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/resolving-buyer-issues/report-issue-buyer?id=4084

None of this will help get your watch back but the more reports the sooner the scammer MAY be caught. You might even get lucky one day when/if the watch ever ends up in the hands of the authorities but don't count on it.

[mtgraves7984]

I got duped by his email scam which asked me to ship the watch after which the payment will be released to my paypal account.

@hathya-0 

Wowzer. You were duped. Sorry that you had such a quick, painful introduction. It's a jungle out here.

[dirk12955]

It's no longer an eBay issue.     You went off eBay and got taken to the cleaners.     

It's now a Criminal matter.    You've been scammed,  defrauded,   robbed,  swindled.   Save all the info.    Save all the text messages.   Save all the Paypal Junk the thief sent you.

Do you have a relative or friend in Law enforcement?     Are they in the same town as you.    You might want to ask them for advice.    If none of that works you might find out if your local PD has a detective that handles cyber-crime.

The links above a good help also.    Baby steps.    Don't be in a hurry.

I wouldn't get to involved with eBay or Paypal in this matter.   Neither of them are really involved.    

Face the fact,    The thief found you on eBAy and then led you into a dark alley,    Off eBAy.

Maybe your home owners insurance covers this kind of theft.    

[m60driver]

Hopefully you only sold one of these watches although your sold listings show two such watches.  If you did list two then expect to loose the second watch as well.

As a new seller on Ebay you had no business selling an expensive watch.  As a new seller selling an expensive item you attracted every scammer out there and got hooked by a pro.  You can certainly file a fraud complaint but the sooner you accept that you will not get either your watch or the money back the sooner you will be able to move on with your life.

[wildpitchsports]

What? all of this is no. Never ever ship an item without payment period. You can kiss however many of them goodbye.

[wrong66]

That's too bad. It's gone forever.

[dbfolks166mt]

     If this was one of the TAG Heuer Monaco Watches you sold for just over $4K this is probably going to be an expensive lesson. You are a pretty new seller and not only are you a prime target for every scammer out there but you are listing high dollar, high target items. I am actually surprised eBay even let you list those since you are a new seller with absolutely no feedback.

     This is a well known common scam that is well documented in not only the eBay help files but also all over the internet. It may serve you well to read up on some of the well known scams as well as the MBG before you fall victim again. 

[fab_finds4u]

OUCH! That's a lot of money! 

Maybe you should make the police in their city aware there's a thief at that address.