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QUESTION FOR EBAY SELLERS

Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:55:30 GMT

This is a new one for me, but maybe it's fairly common ....

I had a cute little leather bag I put on auction for $85 with the Best Offer option. I would have been happy to get $65 for it, but you never know.

Well, I got a Best Offer for $100 for my $85 auction, MORE than I was asking? Usually bargaining is involved, but why would I bargain?

Has anyone ever been offered more than they asked? Not several people bidding and the price increases, just offering more than asked?

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rockygems123 — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:15:52 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
This is a new one for me, but maybe it's fairly common ....

I had a cute little leather bag I put on auction for $85 with the Best Offer option. I would have been happy to get $65 for it, but you never know.

Well, I got a Best Offer for $100 for my $85 auction, MORE than I was asking? Usually bargaining is involved, but why would I bargain?

Has anyone ever been offered more than they asked? Not several people bidding and the price increases, just offering more than asked?

@Tinkrbl44

Yes once many years ago when ebay relatively new and people were confused lol. Did you accept the offer?

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ScrapHappy — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:38:16 GMT

I think it was just a mistake. My husband sells on Ebay. A potential buyer contacted him last night that he made an error on a bid and needed help fixing it.

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Sushismom — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:44:20 GMT

No, it wasn't a mistake. Many scammers will offer MORE than necessary and hope the seller is a bit greedy and sells to them.

Either the amount the buyer offers is bad or when it arrives then it's SNAD and something cheap is returned to the seller.

If you go to the forums on ebay, you'll see how often this happens.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:51:09 GMT

@Sushismom wrote:
No, it wasn't a mistake. Many scammers will offer MORE than necessary and hope the seller is a bit greedy and sells to them.

Either the amount the buyer offers is bad or when it arrives then it's SNAD and something cheap is returned to the seller.

If you go to the forums on ebay, you'll see how often this happens.

@Sushismom

SNAD ?

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Linmo — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:54:37 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 More than likely, they meant to offer $10 instead of $100. I don't think it's a scam. eBay has pretty good policies for both buyer and seller protection.

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silkyk — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:56:45 GMT

Check out the buyers feedback rating. Are they a newbie scammer or long time ebayer? I would email them and explain the situation. See what they have to say.

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Sushismom — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:59:33 GMT

Ebay has LITTLE seller protection. Once again, go to the forums and see how often this happens. Since buyers can ONLY get positive feedback, looking at their feedback won't tell you a thing. And asking them won't get the results you think - any scammer would say it was just a mistake.

@Tinkrbl44

SNAD=Significantly Not As Described

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Linmo — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:00:35 GMT

@Sushismom I've been an eBay seller since 1999 and have never had that happen.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:01:28 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 I bet somebody though she was bidding. Better accept the offer fast.

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silkyk — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:01:59 GMT

You can check out just how long they have been an active ebay member and If they have lots of positive feedback as a good buyer for a long time.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:03:51 GMT

@silkyk wrote:
Check out the buyers feedback rating. Are they a newbie scammer or long time ebayer? I would email them and explain the situation. See what they have to say.

@silkyk

This person has 400 transactions, going back to 2003. 100% positive feedback. They haven't yet responded to my email.

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Linmo — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:04:52 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Tinkrbl44 I bet somebody though she was bidding. Better accept the offer fast.

@Kachina624 You might be right about that.

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Foxxee — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:08:04 GMT

Not a seller, so I wouldn't know, but my impression is the seller will accept less when I see "Make Offer." That's been the case for me.

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Sushismom — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:21:42 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@silkyk wrote:
Check out the buyers feedback rating. Are they a newbie scammer or long time ebayer? I would email them and explain the situation. See what they have to say.

@silkyk

This person has 400 transactions, going back to 2003. 100% positive feedback. They haven't yet responded to my email.

Once again, buyers can ONLY get positive feedback so that doesn't mean a thing. Leaving negs for buyers hasn't been available since May, 2008.

@Linmo

Because this hasn't happened to you does NOT mean it doesn't happen. Go to the ebay forums and check it out.

ETA: Here's an answer to one of these questions about buyers offering more:

Sometimes the more audacious of these scammers will "pay" more than the Buy It Now

price, then ask you to send them the difference. I figure why not... any seller who would

fall for the first part of the scam might fall for the second part. I'm glad you weren't one

of those kinds of hapless sellers. Good catch.

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AmyRD71 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 02:02:33 GMT

Another eBay seller here. That is most likely a scam. They put in an offer for more than price to get you interested. Then they either ask you to add a gift card to the package to be a gift for niece, nephew, cousin etc or they asked you to add cash. They will then send you a fake email that you got paid when you did not. You ship the item and a few days later you realize you never got paid and you were scammed out of the item and the cash/gift card that you added extra.

This is a pretty big scam that happens to lots of sellers who are new or don't have a lot of recent sales. Usually they hacked into the buyer account you are seeing also. Just be very careful with this. Do not talk to buyer by phone or text. Only by eBay message. If you accepted that amount be very careful that the money is really in your PayPal or in eBay managed payments if you are in that. Do not trust emails....those can be faked. Login into PayPal or eBay to actually see the money is there. You may have not seen scam yet but is is all over eBay sellers message boards.

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AmyRD71 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 02:05:50 GMT

@Sushismom is correct. Feedback is worthless to look at for buyers. They can only receive positive feedback since 2008. Sellers cannot even leave a positive feebck with a negative message. Sellers are not allowed to say anything negative about buyers in feedback and if caught they will get in trouble.

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Linmo — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 04:22:55 GMT

@AmyRD71 @Sushismom No offense intended, but I think you're giving eBay a bad rap. Things have changed for the better for both buyers and sellers over the past several years.

As both a longtime buyer and seller, I've had very few issues that were all handled properly by eBay's protection policies. If you don't follow the rules as a buyer or a seller, then you are not covered.

As long as the OP does not communicate with the buyer outside of eBay messages, accepts the agreed to payment and ships to the confirmed address, they are covered in full by seller protection.

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Sushismom — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:38:52 GMT

@Linmo

No offense taken. However, the truth is that some so-called buyers will take advantage of sellers and that sellers have little protection from ebay.

I, too, have been an eBayer since 1999 and have belonged to their boards since 2001. I've seen many changes happen over the years and many scams. It's always much better to be prepared than to fall for one of them.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:27:44 GMT

@AmyRD71 wrote:
Another eBay seller here. That is most likely a scam. They put in an offer for more than price to get you interested. Then they either ask you to add a gift card to the package to be a gift for niece, nephew, cousin etc or they asked you to add cash. They will then send you a fake email that you got paid when you did not. You ship the item and a few days later you realize you never got paid and you were scammed out of the item and the cash/gift card that you added extra.

This is a pretty big scam that happens to lots of sellers who are new or don't have a lot of recent sales. Usually they hacked into the buyer account you are seeing also. Just be very careful with this. Do not talk to buyer by phone or text. Only by eBay message. If you accepted that amount be very careful that the money is really in your PayPal or in eBay managed payments if you are in that. Do not trust emails....those can be faked. Login into PayPal or eBay to actually see the money is there. You may have not seen scam yet but is is all over eBay sellers message boards.

@AmyRD71

I know about the scams, but it doesn't work unless I ship the item before they pay ... which is not happening.

Just fo rthe heck of it, I accepted the offer, and her payment for the item and shipping is sitting in my Paypal account. I need to ship by Tuesday evening.

Still think this could be a scam?