Purchase proposals, a new form of scam? | Buying on eBay

onikore777 · 2025-02-11T08:39:51.093000Z

Can someone please help me understand this thing with Offers? Can a seller with a Paypal account put up photos taken from the internet of any item, set whatever price they want, then after receiving the Offer not reply and hope the buyer forgets to withdraw it? eBay, in order not to damage the buyer’s reputation, especially for someone signing up for the first time, almost forces them to pay the offered price for something that doesn’t even exist—just an internet photo reposted on thousands of other sales sites. The buyer pays and the seller, after receiving the money, disappears into the sunset by transferring the money to a different card and closing the Paypal account, or using that money for their own purposes until the dispute against them is ongoing, and it takes several days for that. A seller like that could have, let’s say, 100 accounts—what do you think, how much do they make and how much money do they have available??? This way they don’t have to go to the bank to ask for money and they get loans or money out of thin air, very cool.I would like an official response from eBay support. Why do you leave these schemes open that are meant to scam people??? Why aren’t accounts that allow Offers and ignore buyers’ messages banned if the seller doesn’t reply to messages within 12 hours, while the buyer is almost forced to, if they forget, cancel the Offer? Why are fake photos allowed in these kinds of listings and why does eBay almost force people to pay into nothingness???

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