Shipping label

[boldtman]

I got someone who bought an item but wants my address and email and he will buy the shipping label and email it to me.  Is that against ebay policy.  Hes got like 800 positive feedbacks as a buyer

[divwido]

ummm,  HE Double Chopsticks NO.

Let me say that again  NO.

You sell, You ship, You control all of it.

[divwido]

Tell them No, it doesn't work that way.

Then invoice them for the item and shipping and wait for payment.  After four days, if they don't pay, come back and we will tell you how to either cancel for non payment or open a non payment dispute and block them.

Be smart, learn first, then sell.

[reallynicestamps]

Hes got like 800 positive feedbacks as a buyer

Look more closely at the FB.

Is it recent? If not there is a very good chance he is a scammer with a hijacked account.

Another possibility, he is not the buyer at all but is pretending to be.

And no.

You accept payment for the entire purchase and YOU buy the shipping label to the address on the payment.

[ryanrobyn]

it's a scam. you would be relying on him and if he doesn't you will have pay the postage. I have had this tried on me many times. RUN!!

[buyologist-3]

EXCELLENT answer!!  ~~~~NO!!!~~~~

Can't improve on that.  

[boldtman]

Thank you very much

[chrispass918]

Um what? That’s not how it works, not sure what the objective of his scam is but it definitely is one. 

[davidstarcher]

It doesn't violate any eBay policy that I know of for them to provide you with a  label and have had many customers do that.  More often then sending the entire label they will usually just give me their FedEx or UPS account number and let me create the label. What matters is that the label is going to the address which you are required to send it to and not elsewhere and that it has a tracking number for you to upload to eBay so that it will be sent. 

[reallynicestamps]

One scam I've heard of is an employee using his employer's account to generate a label.

When the bookkeeping division sees the label and is unable to attach it to anything the business did, they question the label, the shipper refunds the business and charges the seller.

Pretty convoluted, and not worth it unless the scammer were doing it a lot - why try it for a $30 label when you could do it ten times and save $300?  Sounds dumb because the scammer is likely to get fires? Criminals are dumb... it's a corollary of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.