Suspicious buyer

I have a buyer? Asked for my best price then without making an offer gave his PayPal email and asked for mine so he could "conclude the payment ASAP". Explaining I Take payment through ebay I will be overcharged with extra fees for selling with PayPal through ebay. I responded this is a cash on collection deal. Reply can't collect in person sending a courier. So I pointed out my obligation to ebay and gave two options for him to buy. Have courier pay with your cash or buy in conventional way through ebay. He just cut and pasted his former message. Is this buyer just unintelligent or trying to scam me?

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red_magpie
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Is this buyer just unintelligent or trying to scam me?

 

He's encouraging you to break the user agreement and scam eBay by evading payment of their fees. For that alone both of you could have had your accounts suspended.

 

Whether he's stupid or criminal hardly matters. In your position I would place him on your blocked bidders list, and report him to eBay here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/payment-policies/offers-buy-sell-outside-ebay-policy?id=4272

 

 

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