Why does ebay keep letting scammers buy from me!?

[bladerunner365]

Literally. It's so dumb

Problem:
People are buying my items with 0 rep (happened 8 times so far, 2 being auction, 6 being buy now) then not paying up

People are buying from USA (their account even says based in America) even though i clearly put no international postage, and they dont pay up anyway

This is easily fixable? How?

1. Don't let international people buy products I am only selling WITHIN MY COUNTRY. I thought that was obvious...

2. Have a setting that disallows people with 0 feedback to buy your products unless they pay instantly.

But even then, some scammers i have got have 3 rep, 8 rep, and most recently suprisingly 223 feedback (though, only like 10 in the last 12 months). I assume this guy was hacked or something...

What happens and how do I know they are a scammer?

1. They never pay up, even after weeks, or they re-tract their buying (ebay says it was "someone else bought this without the users permission so the purchase has been retracted", leading me not even to report and unpaid item or anything..

2. They send me personal emails off ebay asking me to ship it, after sending fake paypal confirmation emails. Also after them being based in USA, they tell me to ship to Africa

So please fix this. Please ebay. I have so many stupid **bleep** in my seller dashboard and im getting tired of it...

[*tippy*toes*]

You also need to set your postage preferences to block international buyers. Same area as the buyer requirements.

[phorum_junkie*]

Are you sure you haven't already got a Premier account? If you have been able to collect more than three card payments then it is unlikely you have a personal account. 

[springyzone]

As others have said, if someone doesn't pay up, open an unpaid item case after 4 days, don't be strung along for weeks.

As for limiting postage. My sister & i also thought we were covered a while back. She listed items as posts to Australia only.

We had an international buyer & yes, nothing but trouble. We too were surprised as we thought we had limited our sales to Aust but apparently not.

It seems that posts to Australia only doesn't block international buyers, so my sister went back into the settings, she found the right place and had to tweak it more specifically to exclude areas.

If you haven't done that yet, you'll need to as well.

[kopenhagen5]

As PJ says, your PayPal is probably already Premier.

[bladerunner365]

If so... why can't I do BIN then?

[enigmabear]

The listing I can see you have put BIN on it  (Buy it now or best offer in fact)

[bladerunner365]

Sorry, i meant to say why cant i put on immediate payment then

[enigmabear]

Not sure I'm afraid, there *should* be a box to tick when you do your listing which says you require immediate payment when buyer uses buy it now. Unless it is another ebay glitch, I'm not sure why it would'nt be showing

[bladerunner365]

Hmm, can you do a screencap and attach it here so I could see where it is for u if u try to? thanks 🙂

[enigmabear]

It *should* be below where you put your email address of paypal payments

This is whay mine looks like anyway