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How to report a brushing scam to eBay as there's no help center option?
Summary: arandombloke reported experiencing a potential brushing scam after receiving a package of low-value items at a relative's address following an eBay purchase. They expressed frustration over the lack of a specific option to report such scams to eBay through their customer service. *vyolla* responded, suggesting that even with proof, reporting the issue might be futile as it's not necessarily illegal and difficult to demonstrate it as part of a larger scam.
How to report a brushing scam to eBay?
The contact center is utterly useless as there's no fraud option and I am not complaining the real item I bought so the standard options don't work. I ordered an item to be sent to a relative's address (the only time I've done this) from eBay and then not longer after the item arrived from China a big package full of absolute low value crap arrived addressed to me at that address. Only the seller from eBay could have my name at this address.
Any ideas, surely eBay would want to know if seller's are using customer details for scams outside the platform?
john1297576
Mentor2 weeks agoYou have lost nothing in fact you have something for nothing, so ebay will not be interested.
*vyolla*
Mentor2 weeks agoYou can't, in a nutshell, you'd just be wasting your time.
Even if you could forensically prove that the seller you bought from sent the package, it's not actually against the law and there wouldn't be sufficient proof that it wasn't a 'one off' but part of a 'brushing scam'.