Someone just tried to scam me on eBay.

I think that options gone, I remember it being there and I tried looking for it a couple days ago after I blocked someone and it wasn't there. I even called Ebay about it as someone was harassing me over an item someone else bought a week earlier and literally wouldn't stop.

 

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He will send you an empty package. Can you say no or ignore the case?

 

That was my thought. I'd open an empty package. But eBay would reimburse me, I'm pretty sure, especially given this guys lies. But it's all just more hassle for me, right when I thought I had this fool in my rearview mirror.

 

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! your business with this guy is complete.

 

That's what I want... But will eBay force me or hit my account with penalties?

 

Nope. It could be a scam. He may have altered the coin in some way. But in the end it is your choice.

 

If you must do something, I would suggest talking to an EBAY "scam specialist" to let them know what happened. They will side with you, I'm sure of it. Well, pretty sure.

 

I understand I wasn't trying to paint anybody in particular way, I have also worked with Nigerians. But I often found it funny that the scam emails always came from that country I mean why not anywhere else?

 

I think I would call ebay again and ask them to look at all the past notes on the situation.

 

Wait, if he had already opened an item not received case and lost, then the transaction has ended, right? Do you have to accept a return? Or, I guess it's technically a separate "issue".

 

I agree with @ToughCOINS Ebay is going to insist that you honor or accept the return and require you to contact them if there is an issue with it. It's probably going to be easier to just end up doing it this way also despite the flaws in the other persons character and having to deal with them longer than necessary.

 

Such a hassle!

 

"Coin? What coin? The one you never received and tried to sell?"

I vote "no". He lied and tried to sell it; I think that trumps any return policy that you have.

If he returns it, does that affect any future action against him by the authorities?

 

Great idea, this guy is smart.

 

Think about it, how can he return a coin that he didn't receive???.
Contact the EBAY fraud dept. Explain, have them check the record of this transaction. You should be good.
I hope.

 

I think you're covered in the return case. Also, using pictures cropped from the original listing is a tactic to fall back on the lesser offense of relisting a coin before you got it and only violating intellectual property rules rather than mail fraud and such.

 

But mail fraud comes into play when he claimed he never received the coin in the first place... correct?

 

You also have the PCGS Serial Number to verify against.

Please read my private message offline from this...
Bill

 

This guy is absolutely unreal.

I would do everything I could to not honor the return. Why? Because he wants to return it, therefore I want the opposite.