Help - Someone is threatening me through ebay and I am afraid they will come to my home.

[deerejohn1979]

I have received a threat from an ebay member that he will buy all my items and come to my home and I am scared.

I cannot end the listings and I have just literally by minutes missed the customer service line.

Please help

[deerejohn1979]

The username for future reference for anyone who may find themselves in a similar situation is and he is not a nice person 😞

[redwick1]

Please go to options then edit and take out that members id before ebay do
it is not allowed on here.

[deerejohn1979]

I did not know that. I'm sorry.

[redwick1 · Accepted solution]

Contact the police and tell them straight away

They take that kind of threat very seriously and you do not have to put up with it.

Mostly that kind of thing is just bluffing.

Ebay would not be able to do anyting about it.

Why are they threatening you

[deerejohn1979 · Accepted solution]

Because I wouldn't sell outside of the auction. I have had to end all the listings and email each buyer to explain why and explain I cannot let them sell at the prices they have sold for. I am so upset. I have never known anything like it 😞

[redwick1 · Accepted solution]

REad this and report them by the link or phone ebay in the morning if needs be
They open at 9am on a weekend

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/payment-policies/offers-buy-sell-outside-ebay-policy?id=4272

You really should not have ended the listings as you will pay the final value fees if there were bids.
Not sure why you say you can not sell at the prices they have sold for
If you put them up for sale and they sold at the price you asked then you should sell. If you wanted more then you have to start your items at a price you are willing to accept

I hate to say this as you are under enough pressure but the buyer has a point as it looks as if you sold the items and have refused to honour the deals.

That is still no reason to threaten

[deerejohn1979 · Accepted solution]

No, sorry. I didn't explain that well. I listed them to start at 0.99p and they were getting a lot of bids. Three were meant to end tomorrow and I am sure that they would have gone up a lot more. But I ended them because he threatened to buy all my items under another user if I blocked him and then he would get hold of my address and "come and collect if you know what I mean (thumbs up icon)" That is what he said.

I had to end them early because I was afraid of what he might do.

[redwick1 · Accepted solution]

I took it when you said you could not sell them for the price they had sold for they were the items that show as sold.

You could have blocked them by using the Buyer requirement link and then you go back to buyer requirements and scroll down to Stop blocked bidders from contacting me
That way they would not be able to bid or contact you as long as you are not in a transaction with them when you do the buyer requirements
https://pages.ebay.co.uk/services/buyandsell/biddermanagement.html

If it was the lawn mowers then there will be no charge as you had no bids on them
Dont list at 99p if you list again start at a proper price

[deerejohn1979 · Accepted solution]

It was the chainsaws and the blower. I am not very clever when it comes to things like this. And I have never needed to block anyone. I went on to try and figure it out - but if you imagine someone has just sent you a horrific message like that - especially when your husband works nights it is quite terrifying. So I did what I could to prevent it from happening. I feel like I have done wrong. But all I wanted to do was stop this person from getting my information.

[redwick1 · Accepted solution]

Oh dear.
You did sell them then and if you cancelled the transactions without the buyers agreement then you can understand why the buyer was upset.
I am not condoning their actions in any way but they wasted their time bidding on your items and are disappointed
You will be charged the fees at 10% which will be about £27+
If they paid and you refunded through paypal then you pay the fees and three defects on your account
AS you sold the items to them then you were in a transaction with them and blocking them would not have done any good at all.