Potential Fraud International Forwarding

[usa_vintage_goods]

I accepted an offer today on an item and the buyer appears to be using an international forwarding service. When I Google the address I see people from overseas are using this to scam people. Here's the Shopify Community discussion on this. There's an eBay discussion on this too.  The buyer has 100% positive feedback but hasn't given any feedback. 

I contacted eBay and they stated that the package only has to arrive at the address listed in the shipping and not the international address for me to be protected.

Am I being overly paranoid or should I cancel this transaction? Shipping label has already been created. For what it's worth, it's a $45 item. I didn't pay anywhere near that. I realize not everyone is a scammer, but red flags have been raises and I can't unsee them. Google reviews don't look that great either. 

[tobaccocardyahoo]

You can find references to scummy, rotten, thieving buyers from NY or California or Ohio.

Does that mean that you should cancel all bids from buyers in those states?

There are a lot of good buyers around the world who use freight forwarders/consolidators. And a lot of them have money to spend on items which are available in the US which are not available in their countries.

There are many items that sellers choose to sell on Ebay that are likely to sell to scummy, rotten, thieving buyers because they are easy to fence or beyond the price that the buyer can acquire legitimately.

Any seller who has experience selling on Ebay knows which items bring out the scummy, rotten, thieving buyers. Though some people never learn that offering them leads to losing money.

[monica-sells]

The title of your thread is what threw me off.......

"...Potential Fraud International Forwarding..."

You are being a little over catious as well as, by your own admission, overly paranoid.

There are a lot of good reasons our international customers use Freight Forwarding companies. From what my customers have told me, they combine multiple orders from multiple sources and get one overseas shipping charge...saves them a ton of money......

as far as the title, you can easily substitute almost any entity such as....

"...Potential Fraud Chicago Warehouse..."

"...Potential Fraud Last Name ends in "O"....."

"...Potential Fraud Rural Address..."

I think you get my drift.........it is up to you, but if you start cancelling perfectly good sales based on a hunch or an internet search, you will never sell anything.....

....and so one

[lakefor94]

@usa_vintage_goods 

Every freight forwarder in the country has bad reviews.

For $45, I would not hesitate to ship it. I use UPS as the carrier for just about anything going thru a FF.  

I have experienced some funny business in the past with USPS deliveries to FF's like, no delivery scan, package routed back to the distribution center, scans state delivery to agent for final delivery, though eBay finally started accepting that as a delivered package.

Though for a $45 item, USPS might suffice in my world.

[usa_vintage_goods]

I appreciate all the replies and helping to put me at ease. As everyone has pointed out, I could have picked any city around the world.  And to clarify, I wasn't trying to single out any country or region. I also agree I was being overly paranoid.