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Avoiding Ebay Fraud
I couldn't figure out where else to put this, so I figured that general discussion would work. Feel free to move it if somewhere else would be more appropriate.
So I'm trying to sell my 2-year-old laptop on ebay, now that I've bought a brand new loaded Dell for less than I see laptops like mine selling for. I listed it for a week and got people to bid it up to 800 bucks, only to have someone snipe it at the last minute for $1350.... Someone with zero feedback who had registered their account the same day and wanted to "pay me extra" to ship it to Nigeria. Of course when I replied that I wouldn't do that, they shut down their gmail and ebay accounts, leaving me with a wasted week, wasted bids, and wasted item listing fees.
Relisting it, I see that you can prevent bids from people who have less than 0 feedback and cancel any bids that you want to, but how can I keep scammers from bidding at the last instant again? This is the first thing I've ever sold on ebay so I'm not totally up to speed on all the tricks. Thanks!
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