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Buyer Address Change On Ebay?
A buyer bought 2 shirts from me on ebay, and I sent them an Invoice with their address which was in Miami. The buyer paid, and their address changed from Miami to Colombia. So they paid US shipping, but it needs to be sent internationally. I contacted the buyer an no response yet. So I refunded their money, and went to send them a new invoice for international shipping, and it was the Miami Address again. I am not sure what to do! If it matters the address on their paypal is the Colombia one. Is this some kind of scam to get cheaper shipping? What do I do about this? Thanks!!
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
100% scam.
There is no buyer.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your shirts.
The scammer isn't interested in your identity or bank account only in convincing you to ship your shirts to him without him sending you a penny.
The scammer has changed the "ship to" address because he is trying to pay for the shirts with a hi-jacked paypal account. The real owner of the account is in Miami, the scammer is in Colombia. If you send the shirts to an un-verified paypal address or any address NOT listed with the original paypal account you do NOT have ANY protection with paypal. Paypal will only begin to think of covering you if you ship to the one and only paypal verified address.
That scammer hasn't responded because he is busy trying to steal merchandise from dozens of sellers and can't be bothered to respond to any shippers that send questions. Delete that scammer's emails and relist the shirts.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash and possessions. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your possession without them paying a penny.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
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