I've been using ebay for a while now, but not nearly as much as I used to, so I'm not always on top of the various tricks and such that potential scammers might use. The CAG community has been helpful in the past, so I wanted to run this by you guys to see what you think:
-I sold my Playstation 4 on ebay last week to a buy with relatively low feedback (22), but otherwise nothing really suspicious about their profile.
-Late Sunday night, the buyer messages me saying the PS4 crashes after a few minutes of playing games, and they want a return. They open a case immediately after.
-I tell them to ship it back and I will refund when it arrives (and I make sure it's not just a box full of rocks); the next morning they give me a tracking number and say it's going out via NEXT DAY MAIL (from California to Maryland!?) and it will arrive tomorrow afternoon.
-While I wait, the buyer sends me some messages saying they are strapped for cash, and would appreciate it if I refunded them by emaling the paypal payment, so it wouldn't be refunded to their credit card. I politely decline, then cock my eyebrow and go "hmmm...."
-Just a few minutes ago, after reading some messages from the buyer asking if I received the package, I check on the tracking, and it turns out it was a package sent via FIRST CLASS MAIL, and it traveled a whopping 30 miles before reaching it's destination in the buyer's hometown.
What do you guys think? From the tracking, it looks like the buyer pretty much just sent themselves a package, but I don't know how they would plan to screw me over with such a plan. Then again, as I said I don't do ebay stuff much anymore, so before I asked the buyer about it I wanted to see what you thought... is this some new trick I don't know about, or does this guy just not know how to ship a package?
Thanks!
-I sold my Playstation 4 on ebay last week to a buy with relatively low feedback (22), but otherwise nothing really suspicious about their profile.
-Late Sunday night, the buyer messages me saying the PS4 crashes after a few minutes of playing games, and they want a return. They open a case immediately after.
-I tell them to ship it back and I will refund when it arrives (and I make sure it's not just a box full of rocks); the next morning they give me a tracking number and say it's going out via NEXT DAY MAIL (from California to Maryland!?) and it will arrive tomorrow afternoon.
-While I wait, the buyer sends me some messages saying they are strapped for cash, and would appreciate it if I refunded them by emaling the paypal payment, so it wouldn't be refunded to their credit card. I politely decline, then cock my eyebrow and go "hmmm...."
-Just a few minutes ago, after reading some messages from the buyer asking if I received the package, I check on the tracking, and it turns out it was a package sent via FIRST CLASS MAIL, and it traveled a whopping 30 miles before reaching it's destination in the buyer's hometown.
What do you guys think? From the tracking, it looks like the buyer pretty much just sent themselves a package, but I don't know how they would plan to screw me over with such a plan. Then again, as I said I don't do ebay stuff much anymore, so before I asked the buyer about it I wanted to see what you thought... is this some new trick I don't know about, or does this guy just not know how to ship a package?
Thanks!