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Off-topic advice (ebay)  [message #27762] Wed, 01 February 2006 17:48 Go to previous message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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Anyone here good at ebaying? Specifically, international, high value ebaying from someone thousands of miles away with low feedback (3, though no negatives) and no credit card?

I bid, and to my surprise won, an auction for a camera from someone in Finland at perhaps half of what it is worth. The seller doesn't have terribly good English, though I spoke to him on the phone via a mobile.

The shipping is seriously expensive because the item is very heavy (about 140 Euros).

The seller says he is a film student and I am inclined to believe him, as he knows a nominal amount about film-making. The problems are: 1. he is a huge distance away, 2. the item is very expensive, 3. he doesn't have a paypal account of his own, so he wants me to send the money to his sister instead, 4. when I sent the money for the postage to his sister, she rejected it.

With the possible exception of the last one (though it could be a misunderstanding) nothing about him specifically rings alarm bells for me (and I am hopefully quite good at telling scammers as I once worked for an internet company that would encounter dozens a day). But am I justified:

i. on insisting that we use an escrow service such as escrow.com? (at huge expense, I might add - £30 for the transaction)

ii. on insisting that he pay up for the postage while my own money is kept by escrow.com (he keeps talking about his rent and how it is due on the 4th) instead of paypalling it separately to his sister?

iii. if things get out of hand and I get cold feet, am I under legal obligation to complete?

Has anyone been through something like that before?
 
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