Iphone scam alert | Buying

teradj_0 · 2025-12-14T19:20:42.591000Z

I bought a Iphone 16 pro max 256gb on Thursday and the seller sent tracking 4 minutes after i purchased item. Then the seller did not ship item or repsond to my 10 messages for the past 3 days. I woke up today (Sunday) and saw that my order had a 2nd tracking number added to it in which it was showing item delivered. Having gone to royal mail website I found out that this was for an order delivered on a date before I even purchased my item and had shipping to Scotland. I contacted Ebay 3 times today and first got a Item not received case opened then called back again and spoke to an more experienced advisor who could see what was going on and finally got a refund as my 1st tracking number did not have my postcode and neither did the 2nd one. The 1st tracking number had not even been shipped so the key here is to make sure Ebay sees that the post code on tracking is different to yours. If its a more sophisticated scam where they send to an address closer to your address but shows delivered Ebay should still refund as they will be able to see the address that shows delivered and see its not your address. This seller I bought from had 100% feedback and quite a few sales so this whole concept of scammers buying accounts with history and 100% feedback is dangerous. If you look at most of the listings on Ebay for iphones at least 90% of them have 0 sales and feed back so this is where the trick is, they buy these accounts with history and 100% feedback thinking you'll think they are genuine sellers when they are scammers, SMH !!!!

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