Three fraudulent bids in a row

[cliffo59]

Hi - I have received three fraudulent bids on one item that I have to keep relisting. It seems weird to me that it is only occurring on one listing I have and this has occurred on multiple occasions within the space of a week. Any thoughts or suggestions?

[phorum_junkie*]

How do you know the bids are fraudulent? Do you mean the item was purchased and it turned out to be a scammer? If that is the case do you have all your buyer blocks in place especially the one blocking new members who have not been phone verified. Scammers don't usually target auctions, they like to buy and then send links to fake Paypal accounts or ask sellers to use a phony escrow service.

Newbie sellers are a prime target for scammers especially with electronic items. You may be better off listing them as buy it nows with immediate pament required then the item remains active until it is paid for.

It the item is not being bought but people are bidding then cancelling bids that is not fraudulent, just against ebay policy and rather annoying but it is better than them winning then not paying.

[jellybirddesigns]

Whilst it's possible that the bidder is a scammer, I would honestly say that as a zero feedback seller, putting up high priced electronic items is a giant magnet for scammers. You would be better off selling some low value items on here first to get a feel for how Ebay works.

However, if your items sell, make sure you only send to the address in Paypal (not Ebay) and send it with tracking. And only send AFTER the payment has cleared in Paypal, although as a new seller, you'll most likely have a 21 day hold on your funds.

I would also exclude any countries outside of Australia for postage, otherwise you'll have "buyers" from Nigeria trying to get the items.

As phorum has mentioned - you need to have strong buyer blocks in place in order to limit fraudulent buyers. I suggest you maybe start another thread asking how to do that.

[*tippy*toes*]

You only appear to have sold 1 items, which eBay seemed to have removed for whatever reason. You've only had one item that didn't sell. What makes you think you've had fraudulent bidders?

[imastawka]

It does seem an odd and outlandish OP

[kopenhagen5]

Make sure to open unpaid item cases for any item that is not paid for by the buyer to get your fees back.

And add them to your BBL.

[clarry100]

FRAUD means to have obtained something for personal gain by wrongful or criminally deceptive behaviour.

So if you mean you have already been scammed out of an item by someone (presumably a buyer) then you need to gather all the evidence you have and lodge an online fraud report to The ACORN. Then let the buyer know the report number and allow the Federal Police to run the course of their investigation. 

[*tippy*toes*]

They've only sold 1 item, yesterday, which eBay appears to have removed (the message comes up when you click on the listing). It's all very strange and I guess we'll never know if the OP never comes back.