I have all emails and texts.
@nettlead
First, you should never respond to the text me scammers. If they can entice you (against ebay policy) to communicate off the eBay site, in the first place, they see it as an opportunity to expand the scam even further by requesting the gift cards as well.
These are criminals. They have no intention of paying you and use the information (that you shouldn't have provided them anyway) for the purposes of scamming you.
You cannot report these people to eBay on site UNLESS you accepted an offer through the REAL make offer flow, or they are a winning bidder or buyer of one of your listings. You can always contact customer support, and report the IDs, but there are plenty more where these are coming from and likely a wasted effort on your part.
These criminals work the site 24/7/365 and target new or low feedback sellers who are more likely to fall for their program. As you gain feedback, and fail to respond, they will eventually move on to "fresher meat" so to speak.
To slow them down, you can use a "fixed price/immediate payment required" format and DO NOT use the Best Offer feature until you learn to recognize the typical 'text me scammer' profile before they even start the scam attempt.
Congratulate yourself for NOT falling for the gift card scam, others are not so fortunate.
