Someone just tried to scam me on eBay.

Not worth it. You open yourself up to legal wrongdoing doing that. Let the authorities take care of him

 

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Good catch!

 

Yep. Plus, since this this guy thinks he has every right to scam me, he would probably also think he has every right to keep trying to sabotage my account. What's to stop him from opening another account and intentionally screw me over a dozen times?

 

Definitely keep all useful info, especially the city, p.o. box etc... and try to be mindful. Who knows what this guy is capable of.

 

He probably will given that type. The good news is since you already have a case against him calls to eBay will get them to undo anything he does.

 

Yep.
NEW UPDATE: just got a message from eBay that he requested to contact me to discuss it further. (You see, he can't because I blocked him). The message told me how I could email him or call him. As if I would want to do that...

 

Would like to hear what this weasel has to say, if "HE" contacts you.

 

He can't. And he better not try.

 

Not even through the contact seller option?

 

I'm sure he would just love to try and browbeat you or threaten you.

That said, I have an auction win listed as delivered but it hasn't been. The USPS somehow clicked it as delivered at exactly the same date/time it cleared customs, clearly a physical impossibility, so it's not like the USPS doesn't make mistakes with tracking. Logically I'd 'win' if disputed but in eBay terms probably not. Just lucky it's not of much value.

This COULD have been some dude who had a USPS mistake, but his communications clearly are off the deep end.

 

Nope. He tried to sell the coin. Even took his own pictures! There was no USPS mistake.

 

Nope. Once you block someone there's an option you can click to accept messages or not from blocked members. (At least, that's the way it was years ago). And that's always been the option I chose.

 

This ended well. No reason to ever talk with the jerk.

 

I love the fact that the scammer was so stupid. It's classic!

 

You've got much bigger vengeful balls than I'll every have.

Would it be wrong of me to encourage you to: DO IT!

Nah! You could get hurt seeing as how your intention has been published for the world (and an attorney) to see.

 

One thing I've noticed from these scam buyers is that they have this sporadic, spastic, somewhat incoherent grammar. And, IIRC, by "these scam buyers" I'm referring to every single scam buyer I've ever encountered. There's a very strange but accurate correlation IME...

 

Thanks must all be from Nigeria? I noticed that too but them. Language used much like in the email scams.... just a guess..

 

They've all been US buyers IME.

 

All the Nigerians I know are going for their PHDs for Math and statistics and have excellent English grammar.

Not all of them are princes trying to award you money via email.

 

UPDATE: Now he has opened up a return case on eBay. He wants to send it back even though he lied about not having it! Now the question is.... SHOULD I take a return, 24 days after he got it? I do accept 30 day returns, after all.