Ever had a Nigerian Ebayer purchase anything of yours?

Just had some Nigerian time waster use the buy it now option on one of my Ebay sales. Anyone else had this happen to them. I'll have to relist it now, but would ideally like to reclaim my pittance of a listing fee.
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Hello there,
How are you and your familly. i want to make an
immediate purchase of this item at pounds to my
fiancee in nigeria for his birthday coming up
soonest since i will not be able to be present
there so i want to know if i can make the payment
via western union money order bidpay in which the
money will be brought to your given address for the
payment after you might have recieved the payment
confirmation notification through email. So let me
have your full name and address including the total
amount of the item and shipping cost to nigeria via
FEDEX or UPS or ROYAL MAIL SPECIAL DELIEVERY so
that i can make the payment. let me know if i
should go ahead with the payment. here is the
shipping information of my fiancee in nigeria.
ganiyu ibrahim
22 oyemekun street
ifako ijaye
lagos
234001
nigeria.
i will be expecting your reply asap
thanks

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looks legit to me.

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I had a similar thing on my R1 track bike, Its a right pain in the arse. If you contact ebay they will let you re-list for free

booshank wrote

I had a similar thing on my R1 track bike, Its a right pain in the arse. If you contact ebay they will let you re-list for free

I'll report it to them.
Cheers
dave

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I had a similar thing a year or so ago trying to sell a phone - all I got was loads of Indonesians offering vast amounts of 'money'. Complained to eBay but never got my fee back

Slenver wrote

I had a similar thing a year or so ago trying to sell a phone - all I got was loads of Indonesians offering vast amounts of 'money'. Complained to eBay but never got my fee back

I've just emailed Ebay and stated that its obviously fraudulant and it was a UK only auction and included copies of his email with full headers etc etc. I'll wait and see what they say. I've also asked if he would have the right to leave me negative feedback if I failed to complete the transaction? I know he could enter it, but would I be able to get it withdrawn as it was a UK only auction?

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Could he actually bid if it was a UK-only auction?

Mine was worldwide (I've learnt since then!) so at least he was legit in bidding. Even if his money wasn't. If you see what I mean

Slenver wrote

Could he actually bid if it was a UK-only auction?

Mine was worldwide (I've learnt since then!) so at least he was legit in bidding. Even if his money wasn't. If you see what I mean

All listings are international. But you can specify that you'll post to the UK only. Fecking phone is doomed. I sold it to some non paying Scottish bint before.

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Taipan wrote

All listings are international. But you can specify that you'll post to the UK only. Fecking phone is doomed. I sold it to some non paying Scottish bint before.

Ah, I see.... bummer

I've actually got my phone (the same one as I failed to sell before) on there at the moment. Currently at a tenner so not looking too good anyway...

Taipan wrote

All listings are international. But you can specify that you'll post to the UK only.....

You can auto-block anyone who registered outside of the country(ies) you will post to. It's in your preferences.

offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerBlockPreferences

Wont stop all the scammers but keeps a few idiots out.

My bro-in-law had this happen to him three times on a car he was selling, the car was only worth a couple of hundred and some Nigerian was bidding thousands on it and winning, then wanting to pay by cheque just so as he could get the cheque paid into an account for some reason, not sure how the scam works

He is currently going through the E-bay system trying to get it all stopped, he is absolutley livid