Buyer with fictitious name in the shipment | Selling on eBay

affarivintage · 2024-11-04T19:37:06.792000Z

I’m a seller who occasionally uses eBay to sell vintage items. Recently I had a “jokester” buyer (but maybe a scammer) who bought an item for a little over €100 and requested shipping to a suspicious street and house number, located right in the historic center of Florence (where anyone living there certainly wouldn’t buy cheap used stuff on eBay) and, to top it off, as the first and last name on the shipment he wrote made-up words that clearly do not correspond to either a first name or a last name. I contacted him in chat to ask him to confirm the address and give me the real first and last name to put on the shipment, but he didn’t reply. Moreover, in the shipping terms and conditions of Poste Italiane - which I typically use to ship items - it also says that “fictitious names or in any case references different from the real names” are not accepted in the “sender” and “recipient” fields.In your opinion, could this be a scam?

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