The title of the e-mail from eBay was "Suspicious buyer for item" -- I believe the OP is repeating what eBay's e-mail said about a suspicious buyer, and probably does not have his/her own "suspicions" about a buyer.
My selling ID also received a "suspicious buyer" email from eBay earlier this week. I had never heard or read that term before.
The e-mail came to me more than a day after a listing ended, won by the one and only bidder. I had looked at her feedback and found that she had a spotty payment history. She also had not yet paid me her winning bid + postage. So I wasn't really surprised that, according to that e-mail, she was not a registered user on eBay.
One thing that e-mail did not recommend was to add the user name to my BBL. But I did do that.
Now I am kind of wondering if this "suspicious buyer" e-mail is genuinely from eBay. Another thing it said was that I can find the listing in the Solds section of My eBay. Four days later, and it is not there. I'd kinda like to list it again as it is a seasonal item. Several other sellers are selling similar things, and I like to list my items with very competitive pricing.
Oh -- and the e-mail told me eBay had credited "All associated fees except for payments processing fees and the final value fee for my listing." The "buyer" never paid, and in my selling account I don't see any credit or debit of fees related to this listing number. I sell so little that I always fall within my monthly free listings, so that's $0. Because I'm in Managed Payments, I am half expecting to see deduction of the final value fees (I estimate about $2.50) from my checking account.
These are my experiences, though, and not those of the OP "murrie0". Hope he/she can come back and continue this chat.
