Ebay: selling to someone in Lithuania

Joseph

Hi all

I have my htc touch hd up for auction at the moment on ebay and the other day someone contacted me asking if it was genuine (i.e not a chinese copy) so I replied explaining it wasnt and showing pictures etcera.

I had a look at this guys profile and he has 29 rep 100% but he hasnt done anything with ebay since 08 which sort of set some alarm bells off. Got another msg of him this morning saying that he lives in Lithuania (his profile says United States) and would it be possible to ship it there that he would cover shipping costs.

Should I go ahead with this? Won't cost me extra to ship there and aslong as he pays through paypal I should be ok?

Just a bit worried about this one as have only sold 8~ or so items on ebay and havent come accross any risky situations

kmart6

I don't see what the problem here is once you get the money......!?

ttm

Could be the same scam as this one

ttm

kmart6 wrote: »

I don't see what the problem here is once you get the money......!?

Could be funded from a hacked PayPal account then PayPal will take the money back from the seller check my link above.

kmart6

Hmmmmm......

Get his details and contact Paypal maybe!

Joseph

Just to be safe I told him I didn't offer shipping to Lithuania (I had it in my exclusions list anyway), better safe than sorry

Thanks

ttm

My guess its a hacked account that uses the same password for eBay and PayPal.

If you wanted to check a bit further you could check out the location of all the sellers that that account has bought from and see were they are located, if they are all US based and some only deliever to the US then the account owner probably lives in the US and not Lithuania

RoadKillTs

I'd stay well clear OP. My advice is if you have even the smallest doubt about a buyer / seller stay clear.

jor el

I would say it's definitely a hacked account. Look at that feedback, and check out all the sellers. They're all US based. Couple that with the account's registration is US too, and it's likely to be a US person.

There is a slim chance that this is someone who moved in the last year, of course, but an long time inactive account trying to buy something from outside their normal area, does look very dodgy.

kmart6

Throw up a link to the phone will ya, wouldn't mond a look at it!

RoadKillTs

Link

Ya should put up more pictures.

hugoline

Although it sounds like a scam, I would do it but only accept payment by bank transfer or Western Union. This way, you have the money for sure (and send the phone once the cash is in your hands)

Joseph

I've updated it to incl. lots more pictures

RasTa

100% scam, just ship it to the address supplied by PayPal it's not that complicated.