Potential scammer bidding on one of my auctions

[rox_49]

Hi.

I'm currently selling a used expensive tablet with the auction ending tomorrow night .

The bidder currently winning has 0 feedback and joined Ebay in April 2025. They made their high bid a few days ago.

Everyone starts with 0 feedback so could be genuine buyer, but as I've had problems in the past selling these kind of items with new members I contacted them with my concerns just to ask them if they were serious about the sale.

They replied saying yes, they are a serious bidder and they only have a new Ebay account as they can't access their old Ebay account after changing telephone number.

If you change a telephone number or even an address, surly you would be able to get help from Ebay accessing your account right ?

Should I cancel their bid or just wait to see if they win the auction and pay?

Cheers 

[*vyolla*]

It's easy to open a new eBay account, so impossible to say.

[tommystrezures]

As Vy says it’s easy to open new account and they may have had to do if they had no access to old phone number and needed it to pass login security.

[john1297576]

I am afraid that asking a member whether they are a genuine bidder, is hardly proof of anything. A scammer is not going to admit to not being genuine.

This is a risk you take, any scam would be either trying to get you to post without payment, or claiming not as described to get a refund, and not returning the original article.