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Hi, I'm selling a £1500 bike on eBay. Which was cash only and option of local delivery.
I've offered to deliver to a local town, which turns out is a storage unit. Buyer has offered to pay by PayPal and is clearly overseas. So immediately I think no and will say bank transfer only.
However buyer has 250+ feedbacks all on bike related stuff so seems to be genuine
It's a no from me
I feel this is a bit of a loophole, and a sellers wishes should be respected.
But Ebay dont believe in such notions.
Nope, don’t do it. Cash only if it’s going somewhere random with no proof of receipt / it’s not an address on eBay / PayPal.
No. He can claim any kind of fault, PayPal will side with him and you’ll have huge problems getting it back from “abroad”.
Thanks all. No it is!
Wise choice, Ebay always side with the buyer, theres too many snidey scams going on to risk it.
The feedback all looks good, it would be a pity not to do the deal if the lad is genuine. Try messaging one of the other sellers who have dealt with him for a reference and as you said, ask for bank transfer.
If he's proper then he'll appreciate that you're both having to trust each other on this. eBay do say never to use an address other than the one listed for that user.
Will bank transfer not work just as well?
The feedback is irrelevant if the account is hacked. I'd only do it for non reversible payment methods and even then probably not.
Not a snowballs chance.
Sounds as risky as gumtree.
This seems to be a loophole used by overseas buyers, I had a similar sale for some forks with a delivery address of a courier company in London. The address was also the PayPal address, but as others have said it would be a load of hassle if it goes wrong. I cancelled the sale and sold to someone in the UK.
I sell loads of expensive used kit through work and noticed a lot of it went to an address a few miles away so one day drove it over rather than ship it.
Turned out to be a freight forwarder operating out of a storage unit, overseas bidders bought stuff on ebay that was listed as UK shipping only, shipped to him, and he shipped it on. Never had an issue with tens of thousands of pounds worth of kit. TBH I only went over there to make sure it wasn't a competitor, would have been none the wiser unless I'd spotted the same address cropping up.
Might actually be less risk, as far as ebay is concerned the item has been delivered the day it arrives with the forwarder, so if there was a problem just blame their shipper.
Ebay now has a QR-code based collection in-person option to confirm it's been collected too, not sure if that would work if it's collected by a 3rd party though.