Question Regarding Private Sale

[drummerburns]

Good Morning, I have recently been asked to conduct a sale through ebay of an item that was originally listed on another website. The seller has provided the following information: 1. I will contact eBay and give all the info about this deal. 2. They will email us the forms by email – about the buyer’s protection policy, delivery, and payment. 3. You will only upload funds into your eBay account and they will notify me to ship the item to your location. The shipping will take 1 or 2 days. 4. After you will inspect/test the item and decide to keep it, you will forward me the funds and the deal is done. You have 5 days to test it from the day you receive it. If by any chance you won’t be satisfied with it, you can take back your money and canada post will take the item back. If you wish to purchase it please provide me your full name, address so I can initiate the deal through eBay. Is this something that regularly occurs on ebay? I only ask as this is different than any other transaction I have had using ebay. I would appreciate any help in identifying if this is a regular practice or some form of scam. Hope to hear back, Jesse

[reallynicestamps]

SCAM

There is no vehicle.

EBay does not handle financing for other websites.

The widow/oceanographer/soldier/ whatever is sitting in an internet cafe in Lagos, Nigeria nursing a coffee and delighted to have hooked a sucker.

Do not send any information.

Do contact the 'other site' and inform them of the scam. (It's often autotrader.ca and it drives them nuts. The site works hard to get rid of these crooks.)

Put a Block on your email address for this crook. And change your password.

And congratulations on being smart enough to think twice about the offer. It's well enough known to have a name , the Kuboto Tractor Scam.

You didn't fall for it.

YAY YOU!

[drummerburns]

Thanks for this. I was not sure if the individual was trying to complete a private sale via ebay or not. I would have gladly completed the transaction through ebay!

At first I thought that it might have just been a little bit of language barrier, but the emails were getting far too cryptic.

Appreciate the help!

Jesse

[drummerburns]

Oh I should note that this was through a free classifieds website (which usually transactions are completed in person for cash), not an autotrader or anything like that.

Cheers