Ebay/paypal transaction

[325iMSport]

I am selling an item on ebay and someone has offered to buy the item for the full asking buy it now price. But im slightly paranoid the buyer might be dodgy.

The buyer is paying by paypal. But what steps can i take to protect myself? Once i get paid, will the money definetly be mine? I dont want paypal later on to take the money back and also loosing the item.

[Marlin45]

As soon as the money is in your Paypal a/c spend it on 'magic beans' via ebay or another PP enabled site. That way he cannot touch it

Edited by Marlin45 on Tuesday 23 November 22:10

[R1 Loon]

Why do you think he's dodgy?

More pertinently you've advertised something for sale and have done a good job and attracted someone who is willing to pay full asking price, but you think this is iffy.

Weird.

[Chiswickboy]

Take cash or a cheque and wait for it to clear before handing over the item or a bank transfer.

Difficult to answer without more information. Why do you think that the buyer is dodgy? Is he asking you to deliver to a country that is well known for fraud?

[BHML]

325iMSport said:

Once i get paid, will the money definetly be mine? I dont want paypal later on to take the money back and also loosing the item.

I can tell you from experience that the money is NOT yours, just because it's in paypal. They can still issue what's called a chargeback which is when they claw back the money from your paypal account. If you have no money in your paypal account, your balance simply turns negative and they will eventually write to you to demand that you pay the money back into paypal. I speak from experience.

The only thing that I would advise you is for you to post the item to the paypal registered address, and use royal mail special delivery if it's valuable.

Under no circumstances allow the person to pay by paypal and then for them to collect the item from you - this is exactly how I got duped when some f----g scrote came to my house and went off with a brand new Wii console, a few years ago.