Scam on sending pc to Nigeria

pareq65
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I just lost a new computer to Nigeria, this was a scam and I was tricked.

Do not sell anything to the US

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I'm sorry that you got scammed, but at least you have the experience to avoid a similar scam in the future. From now on you should be very careful if anyone wants you to sell to Nigeria, or from someone from Nigeria. 

 

If you are not sure if something is a scam pop in and give us some info and people here on the forums can give you good advice on whether it is or what to do.

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lyndal1838
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Since when has Nigeria been in the US?

 

Surely you mean do not sell to Nigeria?    There would not be anyone on these boards who needs that warning anyway but thanks for posting.....it reinforces that the Nigerians have not changed and probably never will.

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New sellers like yourself (unless you have another selling ID) are not allowed to sell internationally, so how did someone in Nigeria "buy" it???

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Not the PC, but check out the auction bids and starting price on their only sale.

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What you don't think they're worth that much haha

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@pareq65 wrote:

I just lost a new computer to Nigeria, this was a scam and I was tricked.

Do not sell anything to the US


It doesn't matter where it is sold to. Any mention of Nigeria means it's a scam. Every time. This particular scam has been around for over 10 years. If you're going to sell online, perhaps do a bit of research into the various pitfalls of doing so.

 

First flag, before any mention of Nigeria - why would somebody in the US want to buy a computer from Australia. Unless it was a rare Commodore 64 or Amiga or Mac 0.5, it would be much cheaper for them to buy in the US, when freight is taken into account.

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I can't see anything in your ebay history that shows a completed listing for a computer so I can't look up the actual ad. I think they only show for a few weeks in the sold llists so maybe it is gone from view now.

 

But in any case, my advice would be if you are setting up to sell other things on ebay, go through the ad carefully and make it strictly Australian sales only. I think there's a section you can tick to exclude other regions.

By rights, that should block any overseas buyer from bidding.

 

If you do sell something and any buyer wants to change the address you post to, just say no, you can't do that. You need to send only to the address registered on their ebay/paypal.

Personally if i were you, I'd also start out with small sales, nothing too expensive, till you get the hang of how things work on ebay. I don't think most buyers are scammers but there are a few so for now, make it as safe for yourself as you can.

 

 

 

 

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Nigeria  =  Cancel - ? -  Something wrong with buyers address.

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As has been said, Nigeria never sell to, period! 

But I think you're not being 100% transparent here. The sale obviously didn't happen on Ebay (2 completed listings with no bids/unsold) so what actually happened? If you advertise here but sell outside of Ebay, how is Ebay to blame when it goes pear shaped? A few assumptions in there but please feel free to explain

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