I don’t buy on Ebay often, and the following appears to be straight forward, but If I am overlooking anything in the following and am being scammed, could someone advise me?
I bought 20 bucks in general goods from a seller with a feedback of 1- sent 20.00 via paypal. Paypal is currently showing I sent the 20.00 the seller, but status is “uncleared”. Seller sends e-mail explaining the problem is paypal has her wrong e-mail, and for me to go to paypal and resend to her correct e-mail. I can’t do this via the ebay “winning bid page” as I have already gone that route. A scan of paypal does not show how I can do this exactly- does anyone know?
Just tried that- it says I can’t cancel because payment was sent, even though it is still showing uncleared. I will e-mail paypal and ask for their guidance- thanks for the replies.
Absolutely- Mr. Kitty just bought a fairly high-ticket item off Ebay, and sent payment to the seller. He then received an email stating that she needed him to send it to an alternate email- they went back and forth about this over several emails- so he was in the process of cancelling the original payment and re-sending when he decided he wanted to check on one more thing (he’s a bit… paranoid). As he was checking on that, he got an irate email from the actual seller, who was questioning why he cancelled his payment. :eek: I have to wonder how many folks have gotten taken in- it was a pretty elaborate scam, and almost worked.
Another thing to check: Did you recieve the email at your email address or from within eBay’s “My Messages” panel? If email only, it could very well be a scam like bobkitty describes. My wife almost got taken by one of these. When you communicate with the “seller”, don’t reply to incoming emails, but use the “Contact Seller” link from within eBay’s winning notification.