Weird buyer behaviour

I had a CD boxed set for sale.  Been up for about 3 weeks, BIN with best offer.

Buyer made an offer well under the 'sold items' minimum sold price, so I made a counter offer at the minimum I'd seen for 3 months, which was rejected immediately.


Ten minutes later, the item sold for the asking price to a buyer with no feedback who has been a member for only two weeks.

 

Mt spidey sense is tingling, but I'm wondering what the con is here, or is it just a coincidence? Is there any way I can find the location of the user who made the offer, and compare to the new member's address? Just the town would do I guess! Anything I can do to protect myself from something like sending the item out, and then getting a spurious return request after it's been ripped / getting a dog eared one back?

 

Already had a nut buy a promo off me, not understanding what a promo is and reporting me to eBay for selling fake copied CDs!

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Weird buyer behaviour

Just found the original user is selling so if I click on one I get a location - nowhere near my buyer - probably 200 miles away. 

Coincidence? Perhaps my listing popped up to the top somehow? I don't know!

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Happens often, hits, watchers + interest seems to spark the algorithm. Is it promoted?

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Not promoted but did get a lot of views

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