Temptation oh………. Temptation !!!

[Alan Wood]

Yes but in this case the seller has not drawn the money from Paypal and my option to cancel the payment has been available since I placed the order thru Paypal.

[doctoryorkie]

If you have ‘pay after delivery’ with paypal, they pay the seller after 14 days. Leading up to this, the scammer sends out the ‘shipping from alternate warehouse’ twaddle hoping punters will not be savvy. After 14 days, the scammer clears out the balance on the hacked paypal account.

If you don’t have ‘pay after delivery’ they will clear it out straight away.

There are lots of clues in the listings pointing to a scam.

1. Low FB. Bought 19 items sold 1 in four years.
2. Sudden seller.
3. Bait pricing.
4. All five listings ended within one second. (Pulled by ebay)
5. Cut ‘n’ paste listing.

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[The Duke]

I don’t buy anything of value off ebay. My cut off point is £50. I’d rather pay the extra on Amazon for peace of mind.

Do buy alot of Amazon, just bright a new batch of neodymium magnets having almost used the last batch for the sum of £1.98for 100! I also buy all the arduino boards and sensors, motors, resistors etc,  from UK sellers if needed fast, but mostly on a slow boat for peanuts.

The great thing about the slow boat is I forget I’ve order the stuff by the time it arrives. It’s like Christmas when opening the surprise packages.

The seller replied the item before I seem it, what was it and how much?

[The VFM Addict]

There’s also the (local) prank hack or aggrieved girlfriend revenge.    Get to the laptop of someone who has auto login for everything and away you go.     If that’s the case then jamesbond45 could well be one of the victims rather than the villain.

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[doctoryorkie]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182459429216?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182459428480?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182459428232?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182459429425?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182459429610?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

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[Alan Wood]

OK, so I checked my Paypal account this morning and the payment had still not been claimed. I have cancelled it and received the refund from Paypal. I would have thought that a scammer would have acted to get the cash by now so I am putting it down to a mistake but I may be mistaken myself. Time will tell.

[Jason]

eBay has many safeguards in place against new sellers or sellers who haven’t sold much in a while, especially when it comes to items in “risk” categories. Phones is definitely a risk category. This means that payments are held in PayPal until delivery of the item is confirmed, the buyer leaves positive feedback, or 21 days have elapsed without complaint. (The suggested “pay after delivery” option in PayPal does not exist.) I expect this is what has happened here. The scammer didn’t realise this would happen and so has wasted his time.

[Dave Rice]

Are you sure Jason?

Dear Dave Rice,

We’re processing the payment for your xyz purchase.

We’ve requested £ GBP from your bank to cover the purchase you made from on 4 February 2017.

You chose to pay after delivery, so the payment was scheduled for today.

If we don’t receive the money from your bank account, we’ll request the money from your backup funding source – your Visa/Delta/Electron xxxx.

After you’ve made a Pay After Delivery payment, it automatically becomes the default way to pay when it’s available. You can switch it off at any time by visiting the Settings section in your PayPal account.

If the item doesn’t arrive or it’s significantly not as described, you’ve got 180 days from the date you placed the order to report a problem in the Resolution Centre.

[Jason]

Was that an eBay order?

[Ed P]

I now NEVER use Paypal for foreign orders as they do not give a free product return service, which is why I suggest that an incomplete delivery scam COULD be operated. Try returning something to China and find out how much it costs!

[The Duke]

That’s why I won’t spend more than a few quid on the slow boat. Basically I see it as punts, if the product is rubbish it gets binned and a bad review. However I have found on the od occasion something is afoot, even in relays or such, they will tell you to bin it, and get a replacement out to you faster than the origanal.

Put I always choose sellers with a long history, ligit seller are terrified of negative feed back. I can’t really a time I’ve contacted a seller with an issue, and not had it resolved withing 24h. But still I would trust spending a lot on long distance.

Last need I seen a new coat on an eBay video, I asked the content owner could they find out the name of the coat, they got back to be fast, it was a Makia jacket, but was last year’s range, and I could only source it in Russia, I’m not sending 207 euros to Russia. I’ve found a US site that was out of stock, and give them my email to notify if they get stock. I just can’t trust that kind of money to Russia.

[Jason]

207 euros on a coat? How the other half live! Until December I didn’t even own a coat.

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[The Duke]

£200 isnt much for a decent coat. A coat is like boots and mattress,  invest wisely.

[Dave Rice]

Jason, yes it was E-Bay.

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My winter coat cost me £40 in the Dickies sale back in September Industry300 Winter Jacket  Proper water and windproof and top quality.

[The Duke]

I have a duckies coat all black jobby was £45 about 10years ago. My other main coat was second hand just over ten years ago from America, think I paid £75 deliver. A Vietnam combat jacket, real thing got it before the ‘fakes’ became stylish. Also i have my berghaus, never been without a berg since I was about 10. My latest is 3 years old.

The dickies one it lives in the boot, and I use when working outside, the Nam one is my main jacket, and the berg for when it rains, which is often on the coas this time of the year.

But mostly I’ll be found in a fleace, I have many berghaus fleeces, not the expensive windproof ones, the £20 jobbies, in differnt colours, tho I have 4 black ones in various straights of fadedness. I’m not the ‘coolest’ of dressers. Conbats/jeans and fleece, I’ll be found in when I don’t need to don a tie. Which I hate.

However I think the wife has changed the washing power as  all my coats seem to be shrinking ?

This is the dickies jacket, £40 in my local builders yard about 10 years back

http://www.dickies.com/outerwear/flex-softshell-jacket-with-hood/SJ377.html?dwvar_SJ377_color=BK#sz=12&start=20

[JayCeeDee]

The Duke wrote:

However I think the wife has changed the washing power as all my coats seem to be shrinking ?

That’s more likely to be either where you’re cooking for yourself, with the missus away, or all that Indian food!!:w00t: You may well be expanding out of your clothes.:( I know, because my XL frame has just become XXL and it’s all down to my love of good food.

[PlaneMan]

Got a Dickies coat from the ebay outlet last March, removable fleece lining, fully waterproof with a hood. Listed as ‘seconds’ as some of the velcro on the storm flap was loose. Couple of blobs of no more nails sorted that. Warmest jacket I’ve had since skiing gear as a kid.

£30 delivered.  :yahoo:

[Richard]

PlaneMan wrote:

Got a Dickies coat from the ebay outlet last March, removable fleece lining, fully waterproof with a hood. Listed as ‘seconds’ as some of the velcro on the storm flap was loose. Couple of blobs of no more nails sorted that. Warmest jacket I’ve had since skiing gear as a kid. £30 delivered.

I bought a couple of pairs of their shorts last spring. Wore them all through summer until well into autumn and they still washed up like new each time. Other more expensive shorts ‘from other suppliers’ did not do nearly so well. I like Dickies kit. I don’t need a jacket for the moment, the ‘company’ one I got years ago lasted longer than the company, the lining is worn but it still looks OK from the outside. It must be nearly 16 years old now.

[The Duke]

@jayceedee I’m sure your wrong, lol.

@planeman mine is like a neoprene material, best I could describe it, it is truly a great and tough coat. Bought it spare of the moment as I was helping on one our our houses, and only had an old Canterbury tracksuit on, as I was in the builders que I spotted it, in an end of line sale, and I felt the coat, and being all black, I knew it would make a good car boot dog walking jacket.

If you was to check my boot you’d find the coat with dog bags and biscuits in the pockets plus the have the open backed inside pockets to put your phone on a wet day so you can run the earphones up the entire of the jacket. This I use BT ones there days. They was sci-fy in 2008 lol.

They are great coats mad for workmen out doors. So normal life they should last forever, as long as the wife doesn’t shrink it  😉 not sure you can shrink neoprene lol. :whistle:

[Jason]

Dave, I wonder if that PayPal setting is an option given to buyers when the seller is new, lapsed, or new to a high-risk category. I confess I’ve never seen it, and certainly none of my hundreds of buyers each month have ever used such an option (so I assume it’s not available).

My apologies for dismissing it. I guess it must be a new option and has never been relevant to my activities.

Regarding the coat, I’m pretty much on the breadline. Quite honestly I didn’t own one until December, when I acquired a cheap one for a trip to Iceland (which was no colder than the UK). I could never justify spending anywhere near that amount on an item of clothing. That’s no criticism of those who can, of course. 🙂

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