@kellensellsit wrote:
I’ve been selling items for about 2 weeks now on eBay and about 10 times in a row I get 0 feedback buyers who ALL ask me to text them for “questions”. Obviously it’s a scam so I tactfully tell them to just message me on eBay and not through texting and after I say that they just ignore me so I end up cancelling the order and relisting. How long will this continue?
That'll be going for a while, at least until you build a feedback count in the hundreds, and even then the high-scam items will continue to attract scam buyers. (There's no need to reply at all to a request for texting, as that is simply the mark of a scammer. Ignore the text request and cancel once you are past 4 days from the end of the listing.)
To get past the initial text scammers, list your items as Fixed Price for whatever you genuinely want to collect for them, and omit (or remove) the Make Offer button, so that you can set the Immediate Payment Required option (see the full listing form to find that checkbox). That will prevent scam buyers from snatching your item off the market without actually paying you for it first.
Once you're past that and ready to ship, there is still some risk of a fake damage or empty-box claim when the package is received. If a refund is demanded, you can still request that the item be returned first, but otherwise your seller protection for damage or missing-items claims is not as strong as that for Item Not Received claims, so don't list anything here that you cannot afford to lose in its entirety if things go seriously sideways. (Regarding that $1250 Beanie Baby, you will need to ship that with Signature Confirmation, not just Delivery Confirmation, as the final sale price will be over $750.)
