19-05-2020 12:54 PM
I've had a message from a prospective buyer in Canada for a high value item. I don't currently offer international shipping but hadn't excluded this in selling preferences. The message seems genuine but the account is brand new with zero feedback, and further, eBay messaging produces this error message when attempting to reply "the recipient did not post the question you are trying to answer". So far, so very odd and so far, so very dubious. I've been able to message the account outside of any transaction, simply to 'keep the door open' should it prove a genuine enquiry. eBay support has been useless and now, oops - our server is down (messaging). Anyone experienced anything similar?
Personally I would treat it with a great deal of suspicion and I would be very careful. Best thing is just to put the ID on your blocked bidder list, it might just be genuine but I would not take the chance.