I have an expensive item on sale. I have been contaced via eBay Contact Seller from somone claiming they want to buy, and making an acceptable offer of £700 including tracked and insured despatch. I tell prospective buyer to simply click the Make an Offer button and proceed from there.
Buyer comes back with:-
"Yeah mate i understand you clearly but before i contacted you, i have tried to go through buy it now or bidding on another member item method but my account won't allow me to commit myself to buy the item, it has been long I used the account on eBay. I have informed them that I will use the seller question to buy my item Pending when my account will be re- activated. That was why I was able to contact you through asking the seller's question.I will appreciate it If you can consider me to enable me make the transaction through this method. So I will like you to provide the below information: PayPal Email Address: eBay item number. Remember to send it directly to my email or send a PayPal Money Request to my PayPal email for immediate payment..."
This is definitely trying to buy ouside of eBay (I think) which breaks the rules and I suspect is a scam. I cannot find out how to report this th eBay, just keep going round in circles.
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