Possible scam? Suspicious buyer.

[akirperer-0]

This is my first exeperience as a seller. Selling a £200+ phone.  Account made in 2005 with over 50 reciews as a buyer. Here's what happened.

Buyer told me it's a gift for their grandson. Apparantly in West Africa. Perfect English, which made me second guess it. Apparantly the eBay buying system doesn't work for her. The buyer is requesting my PayPal email. They gave me their personal email (which apparantly breaches eBay policies). They also offer £200 over the price, which is plain ridiculous.

Researched it, and it seems to be a scam. Which shocked me. But how do I stop this person bidding at the end, and spoiling my entire bid?

What shall I do?! I want this person banned, I mean, what a scumbag thing to try and do.

Thanks.

[akirperer-0]

Hey guys, check out my other thread. Still need advice haha!

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/Selling-Phone-Update/m-p/6789559#M509406

[redwick1]

Why do you still need advice after the advice given on here.

This is the Member to member Support thread
Your othe post is on Seller Central
Why do you need to do both
I dont reply on those threads and I dare say some of the others on here do not either

[john1297576]

You can add this person to your Blocked Bidders List, but there are 100s of accounts which have been hacked and they just switch to a different ID. You just have to be wary and if it sounds too good to be true, then it isn't true.

I see you have corrected the postage, congratulations. We see so many times where sellers are advised that they are using an incorrect method and they take no notice, but we try to help them.

@akirperer-0 

[akirperer-0]

That makes sense. It's a shame, as that account was from 2005, and had a normal name, solid reviews etc, but was taken over by a dodgy character. Initially it was hard to spot considering the solid variables. But this scammer was *bleep*, I literally typed in what he typed in, and every result on google came up as a scam. (It seems that they are following a transcript lol)

Yes! I changed the postage, however the £9 postage may have scared away possible buyers.
Is there anything else I should know about when selling a phone?

Thanks!