ebay alert

[Mr. Bloom]

(pretty sure that had to do with a cashiers check too)

Here's how it works:
- they send you a cashier's check for too much "by mistake"
- then, they ask you to send them a check for the difference along with the product
- then, about three weeks later, the cashiers check comes back to you as counterfeit
- but, your check back to them has already cleared

You're out the sold item and some real cash...

[Eden]

Here's how it works:
- they send you a cashier's check for too much "by mistake"
- then, they ask you to send them a check for the difference along with the product
- then, about three weeks later, the cashiers check comes back to you as counterfeit
- but, your check back to them has already cleared

You're out the sold item and some real cash...

Yeah - it was a while ago, so I don't remember the details, but it went something like that - he wanted to send extra to have it shipped out of state by rail or some such nonsense. We were to cash the check and send some back to him to arrange shipping or something really stupid like that. It was pretty obvious to us that it was a complete scam. He got a bit snarky when we told him that he was not honoring the terms of the auction by A. paying by paypal, as we'd specified that as the only type of payment we would take and B. asking us to ship out of state, when we'd also specified local pickup only, but he sure didn't try to debate it once we'd turned him into ebay.