Selling some bike stuff on eBay. Nothing fancy just some old stuff that I've recently replaced.
Got a message off someone with no feedback asking if I've got a Facebook account so 'we' can sort something out.
Reply or ignore?
Ignore.
Keep all the correspondence within Ebay's messages. They're asking about Facebook because eBay can spot when email addresses are being exchanged via their message system - so the guy with zero feedback isn't an eBay novice if he knows that. Thats to protect their own business interests but taking the exchanges out of eBays system takes you out of any protection ebay provides too.
As ever, if you find yourself asking "is this a scam?" then the answer is invariably "yes it is."
Ebay - Protection = 😂
Bloke looking for way to cheat eBay.
Guess who else he may be about to cheat... 🙂
I would reply saying that what they're asking is against eBay's rules and you're not interested. The risk to you otherwise is that if for any reason you withdraw the listing eBay will assume you did a deal off eBay and charge you the selling fees anyway. There was a poster here a week or two back who that happened to.
And probably a hundred other scams. Goods not received, reversible payment methods...
One may scoff at ebay's "protection" but there's using Tesco Value condoms and then there's sleeping with a heroin-addled hooker bareback. If you keep everything within ebay then you at least have an audit trail, as soon as you go off piste ("my representative will call to collect") you leave yourself wide open.
