So I started selling on eBay in February of this year and sold several hundreds of items, mostly gaming stuff. Everything has been good until now and now this week I seem to be getting the bad buyers.
I sell an AS-IS defective PS3 (40GB model) that works except for the disc drive. I clearly state in my auction that it is as-is with no returns. In my returns section I even say something about if something is wrong with your order you gotta contact me within 3 days after delivery. Today, a week after it was delivered I get this message from him "when i turn on the ps3 it turns off itself line in 2 secs ...."
A little late telling me this don't you think. Well the plot thickens. Just hours before he bought this from me he bought another as-is defective 40GB PS3 from someone else. Luckily that guy already left feedback so I could see this and guess what the other PS3 is "as-is powers off" with the seller guessing a bad power supply. He answered someone's question:
Q: so when you turn it on in the back does the light in the front come on the red one?? and when you hit the power in the front does it go green then yellow then flashing red .
A: no, when flipped on in the rear, the light is red for standby, then when you hit power it beeps, goes green and instantly loses all power, wotn turn on again till the cord is uplugged
I don't think this could be a more obvious scam. Most likely he swapped my good power supply into the other PS3 and is trying to get a refund for the one he bought from me. I'm clearly not going to allow a return, but I'm worried he will go to PayPal and hopefully they are smart enough not to side with him when I say as is no returns, but even beyond that he could leave neg fb and try to do a chargeback if he happened to pay with CC?
Never dealt with anything like this so trying to get prepared if this happens. Any advice? I wrote the other guy he purchased from with questions and its late now, but hopefully he'll message me back tomorrow. I guess I'll wait until tomorrow to see and then reply to the scammer. This guy doesn't have feedback that points right away to scammer, but unless he mixed up the PS3's on accident I can't imagine he isn't trying to pull something here.
I sell an AS-IS defective PS3 (40GB model) that works except for the disc drive. I clearly state in my auction that it is as-is with no returns. In my returns section I even say something about if something is wrong with your order you gotta contact me within 3 days after delivery. Today, a week after it was delivered I get this message from him "when i turn on the ps3 it turns off itself line in 2 secs ...."
A little late telling me this don't you think. Well the plot thickens. Just hours before he bought this from me he bought another as-is defective 40GB PS3 from someone else. Luckily that guy already left feedback so I could see this and guess what the other PS3 is "as-is powers off" with the seller guessing a bad power supply. He answered someone's question:
Q: so when you turn it on in the back does the light in the front come on the red one?? and when you hit the power in the front does it go green then yellow then flashing red .
A: no, when flipped on in the rear, the light is red for standby, then when you hit power it beeps, goes green and instantly loses all power, wotn turn on again till the cord is uplugged
I don't think this could be a more obvious scam. Most likely he swapped my good power supply into the other PS3 and is trying to get a refund for the one he bought from me. I'm clearly not going to allow a return, but I'm worried he will go to PayPal and hopefully they are smart enough not to side with him when I say as is no returns, but even beyond that he could leave neg fb and try to do a chargeback if he happened to pay with CC?
Never dealt with anything like this so trying to get prepared if this happens. Any advice? I wrote the other guy he purchased from with questions and its late now, but hopefully he'll message me back tomorrow. I guess I'll wait until tomorrow to see and then reply to the scammer. This guy doesn't have feedback that points right away to scammer, but unless he mixed up the PS3's on accident I can't imagine he isn't trying to pull something here.
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