Selling my camera... does this sound like a legit offer to you?

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I really appreciate your response.I am located in Remsenburg city,NY.
I really need to buy this and send to my
son schooling outside the state.I have been trying to
buy this on ebay but its so very stressful buying on ebay.I would not
want to loose out this opportunity so i will like to make you an offer
of $420 so as to wrap up the sale.I will be paying through PAYPAL
because i have a verified account with paypal.So
kindly get back with your paypal email address so i can make payment
into your paypal account.Once payment clears,shipment will be handled
by me through my personal fedex account,so you dont have to pay for
shipment.Get back to me if my approval is granted.I would like to see more
the pictures please.
Kindest Regards
I figure if she’s paying through paypal then I really can’t get ripped off seeing as the money transfer is instant. The shipping thing kind of worries me, but if she has an account then it’s as simple as filling out the Airway Bill and putting her account # down as payment and calling FedEx for a pickup.

Just wanted some opinions. What do you think? Sound sketchy or does it sound like a legitimate offer?

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If it does not show up on your actual paypal account its a scam. Nick had a guy try it to him and the “payment” went into his spam folder. If it does just report the link to paypal as a spoof mail

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Well yeah. It’s probably BS seeing as how she offered more than I was asking, but I gave her my paypal address anyway. We’ll see what happens I suppose.

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get a number dumbass

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Well, you would be in violation of ebay agreements. She could easily say she never received the product. Shipping was done through her, not you. They could then retract payment and return the money to her especially since it was violation of TOS.

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Yeah I was thinking that too.

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SCAM SCAM

Here’s what will happen.

She will pay you, then she will say she never got the item. She will get refunded and they will take your money.

Almost happened to me but I fought it and had all the tracking #'s etc. I swear paypal is in on it.

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It’s too easy for them to just say they never got the product. They could theoretically just say the package they got was empty or something along those lines.

Fuck this. Thanks for the heads up guys.

:number1

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You owe me $ now.

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SHIT!

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No, I said it first. He owes me money and I’ll buy you a beer.

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Acctualy thats not that type of scam…

heres what will happen as this has happend to me many times…

You will give them your paypal adress… you will then recieve an email that looks just like a paypal email saying payment recieved it will look legit bla bla bla… itll say you got the money in your account etc…

It looks very legit…

then login to your acctual paypal account and realize thats theres really nothing there

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Thats what I said at the top of the page

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100% BS, I can’t believe you couldn’t tell by the way it was written.

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Remember the old saying, “if it’s too good to be true…”

Yup.

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The fact that she was offering me more than my asking price and offered to pay shipping automatically threw up the red flag.

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Not to mention, Remsenburg is located in the South Hamptons. Someone from there is most likely not going to be looking for a camera on Ebay…