This caught my eye as I'm suffering from an apparent fraudulent payment at the moment!
I've been buying and selling on eBay for about 4 years and on and off get scammers and con artists trying it on, but have mostly been ok. I have only ever been seriously stung as a seller.
Once by selling a copy of Moonstone to a chap in Germany, who claimed never to have received it, but then ending up selling the exact item a fortnight later (and utterly unable to account for as to where this item had 'magically' appeared from fobbing me off with some utterly unrelated purchase from Australia) I actually felt like paying the cheeky fella a visit. PayPal and eBay left me in the lurch over that and I had to receive compensation via the Royal Mail!
Lesson Learnt, or so I thought.
Today, I dispatched a low end (Pentium I 40mb RAM 800MB HDD) Laptop to a guy in Essex, good feedback rating, confirmed address, PayPal Payment, all good indicators. This very afternoon PayPal contact me saying they're investigating the transaction and not to dispatch the Item! Too late sunshine! I pride myself on good customer service and have always dispatched items as soon as they are paid for.
TBH if it was some all singing all dancing wonder Laptop and I was flogging it to a guy in Nigeria, then I would actually kick myself in the head for that, but this little thing? What's the point?
It sounds like somebody has fraudulently used a legitimate buyers account to scam me, however, I'm hopeful that I'll get my money back as I am fully covered by PayPal's seller protection, but I'm not going to bet the farm on that.
