Seller Beware!

[Rahb]

Wow, almost got scammed using Craigslist to sale my camera and equipement. I posted it and within an hour got 3 responses. One kept asking for my paypal account to send payment. Gae her my paypal e-mail. Tells me she sent money for shipping also. Which I found odd because NOTHING was discussed, and I did not want to have to ship to someone if I could avoid it.

So, an hour later I get an email from service@paypal.com - it stated that I have the amount waiting to be sent to my paypal account pending sending them a tracking number showing I had sent the item "this is to protect both the buyer and seller". It struck me as odd. So I check out this service@paypal.com email account and it turns out that it is the "display name" of the email address and it was really paypalserviceteams@mail2pal.com . Again I was feeling weird about this transaction so I contacted the person and stated my concern and that I would not be sending the product, to please cancel the payment.

So I check online and it turns out that this is a Scam ran out of Nigeria. I take another look at the email, and the ship to address was NIGERIA.


Wasting my time like that. SHEESH

[photonewb]

CL is a "cash only" transaction IMO.

then again I won't touch paypal for anything so if someone had asked me for a paypal I would've told them no.

never follow links in emails. If you get something from a bank or paypal or anything else that actually seems legit that you have business with type in the url yourself. Don't get scammed because you're lazy.

[ChristopherCoy]

Originally Posted by photonewb

CL is a "cash only" transaction IMO.

+1....

I recently bought a Wien Safe Sync from a guy in Carrollton. I had the option to paypal him, and even though he was legit, very nice, and proactive with communication, I still made arrangments to pick the item up with cash.

[studiocygnet]

Yep, Craigslist is just a modern form of the local newspaper classifieds, so face to face with cash in hand is the only way I do it.

[Joe_Lorenzini]

I had that happen recently although not with Craigslist and realizing it was a scam kept them on the hook thinking I'd send the items for over 2 weeks before they got exasperated and gave up.

It was fun.

Joe

[BeccaJ]

i sold 2 lenses on CL over the weekend. in my ads...i always write cash only, local sale, no shipping, and i dont get all the scammy crap.

[toverman]

Originally Posted by studiocygnet

Yep, Craigslist is just a modern form of the local newspaper classifieds, so face to face with cash in hand is the only way I do it.

Craiglist is worse than the newspaper classifieds ... with the paper, you have to at least pay something to print the ad. CL is free and shows it!