im selling a faily average leyland mini wheel on ebay

Ive had some guy from thailand insisting that i post it to him, but i turned him down, now i have someone from japan adament that they want it sent to japan.

Does this happen to a lot of people??

Id kind of understand it if it was a mint condition wheel, but it isnt (no offence to it)

this is my add here http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... :IT&ih=008
(shamless plug :P)

I thought the international interest was interesting

GEEzE i cant get away from these alliterations

(PS is it hard to send items like this o/s??)

Some may also be scammers....

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"Life is not like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. Whatever you do today, may burn your arse tomorrow."

Nah its easy to send stuff internationally. It just costs a lot. But if they are willing to cop the cost, then its no extra skin off your nose.

Zizzle, how do you, as a seller, get scammed by a buyer?

Only when I get the money in my hands do I send the stuff out... No money, no posting. Simple. How can you get scammed?

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Jonathan
http://photobucket.com/albums/y64/FatMaserati/

The first thing I ever listed on ebay was a moke fuel tank,
and I nominated post to Aus only.

A German guy asked if I would post if he won, I said OK.
Cost him $70 for the tank + $120 for postage.
He was happy, I was happy - no probs (but get the money first)

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Too many cars, and too little time.

Yeah, as long as you get the money first, and as long as you tell them "you are paying for postage, not me."

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Jonathan
http://photobucket.com/albums/y64/FatMaserati/

Mikey and I buy a lot from overseas and sell a lot overseas.

Steve

there are a lot of international scams on ebay atmo, suss it out first.

I sold a softtop and roof bars for a Moke to a bloke in Germany via EBay.. He had someone come down from Melbourne to pick it up and post it to him..

I have sold a grille to a guy in Japan. Paid $75 for a rusty 850 grille!

I sold a steering wheel to a guy in Canada for $200! It was junk to me. Came in a job lot.

When I was selling Pops a guy from Japan wanted it bad. He was offering $10 000 and had a friend here in Sydney organised to come look at it. Yea, that would have been nice, but I can sleep at night knowing it stayed in Aus and went to a good home.

I had a mate run up against this scam when he put his EH on ebay. Lucky he asked me about it first.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/overpayment-scam.html

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"Life is not like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. Whatever you do today, may burn your arse tomorrow."

Interesting.

Personally, I would NEVER take a cheque as payment. There are so many other options available to buyers, that a seller can instruct the buyer, not the the other way around.

I insisted on CASH when I sold JAM.

I was selling some bike stuff a while back and some guy said he'd pay me via cheque from overseas (i knew fully well it was a scam as his english was damn poor). He actually sent the cheque to me, when i got it they must of printed the cheque on a real crappy printer as you could see lines in it and the paper was heavier (like normal A4 paper).

Anyway I had some fun with them and told them I sent the stuff in the mail etc etc, they started to get real antsey when nothing arrived. I just wound them up more and more and at the end I just started to give them crap about how they couldn't speak english very well....

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RE: This scam --- http://www.hoax-slayer.com/overpayment-scam.html

I'm sorry, but you have to be pretty stupid to fall for that one. No wait... MEGA stupid. Who accepts cheque anyway? Outside of eBay? And who would give money back before the cheque cleared/bounced? It's not stealthy at all! It's blatantly obvious!


Don't worry about scams man. Just sell it overseas.

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Jonathan
http://photobucket.com/albums/y64/FatMaserati/

It's not that simple. Usually they send a bank cheque, not a personal cheque.

Also the bank also initially clears the money into the victims account, so they then send the goods. The bank then discovers the error and wants it's money back.

Really it is a floor in the banking system. They should not let a forged check clear if they really haven't got the money from the other bank.

Perhaps it has been closed by now.

If the offer is too good to be true, then it usually is. Greedy people beware of other greedy people. As the saying goes, it's very hard to scam and honest man.

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"Life is not like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. Whatever you do today, may burn your arse tomorrow."

mate, they would have set up a shrine to your car if you sold it in japan,

here in australia where wankers hate clubby's it will end up with chequer plate, cup holders and pretty much every dodgy ricer mod imaginable (eventually)