topic Re: Computer generated ids in Selling

Computer generated ids

mykoda910 — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:46:17 GMT

In the past 3 days I have had 4 buyers with what look to be computer generated buyer ids; 2 on 3/12, 1 on 4/12 and 1 today.

All ids have 0 feedback and were created on the same day as the purchase was made.

All paid by paypal; one buyer is verified the other 3 are unregistered.

They are all to different names in different states in the USA. I have looked them all up on whitepages.com and they are all listed but only one of them has a phone number listed.

All of them provide a cell phone number in their purchase details (I looked up the numbers as well to see if they are landlines or cell phones).

Based on the fact that they all are real people in different states I shipped the first 3, however with yet another one today I'm concerned. Is ebay now issuing computer generated ids and I'm just being paranoid or is this a scam? If it's a scam then how is that possible when they are all to real people in different states?

Re: Computer generated ids

bigbrickshop — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:52:57 GMT

They are probably buyers who have made a purchase on eBay as a guest. Ensure you send any items using a shipping method that meets the PayPal Seller Protection requirements on ebay.com if you want to be covered in case of a PayPal claim.

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/buy/buying-as-guest.html

Re: Computer generated ids

mykoda910 — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 03:28:18 GMT

Thank you for that.

Re: Computer generated ids

putney32 — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:25:05 GMT

seeing as all your buyers, (and you) aree in the USA there is really no point asking questions on ebay.australia boards as our rules and terms are a bit different to usa ones.