How do you handle an ebay buyer like this?

darktone

I sold a coin about ten days ago on ebay and I got this email a couple of hours ago.

<< <i>yOU SENT THE COIN TO THE WRONG PERSON !!!!!! >>

I then sent this email back.

<< <i>Hello, please explain what you are talking about? I need a little more information. Mike >>

Now I just recieved this email.

<< <i>MY COIN WAS SENT TO ANOTHER PERSON HOPE I CAN GET IT !!!!!! >>

I replied with this email.

<< <i> still don't know what you are talking about? Please tell me exactly what happened so I can resolve this matter. What is wrong with the coin I sent you? How do you know your coin was sent to the wrong person? Without more information from you I can't even begin to help you. Mike >>

What more can I do? mike

originalisbest

Ask him/her for their name, address, the auction number, the coin in question, etc., etc.

Sounds like both a LOON and a scam. Sorry you seem to have had such a run of bad luck lately with the loons, though if it helps any, I've often enjoyed looking at the pics of your raw coin buys.

darktone

I think the email is legit because it was a reply to an email I set 10 days ago to the high bidder and it includes the item number. Thanks for the compliment on my coin pictures. I know what you mean about the loons- I wonder what will happen next. mike

airplanenut

IDIOT, YOU SENT THE COIN TO THE WRONG PERSON!!! CAN'T YOU READ?????

Dog97

<< yOU SENT THE COIN TO THE WRONG PERSON !!!!!! >>

AH-HA!! That proves Cap Lock Idiots are idiots! See where he hit the shift key to make a capital Y and forget his caps lock was on and made a small y instead?
Tell him "nO YOU ARE NOT WHO U THINBK YOU ARE!!!!"
If he wasn't scamming you & didn't get his coin why wouldn't he think it just got lost instead of getting sent to the wrong person? Maybe he did get his package but it had the wrong coin in it so he though his went to somebody else.

relayer

Selling on eBay allows you to deal with the best and the brightest out there.

Try and help him out by asking for the auction number and what he received.

Not too many questions though. Just go at his speed

darktone

I have recieved no new emails as of this morning so I suspect it was just hoax. mike

Russ

AOL user?

Russ, NCNE

baccaruda

I'm amazed at the number of people out there who type in ALL CAPS. I wonder if they know lower case letters are available?

Barry

How can you tell there are lower case letters? On my keyboard they only show the caps.

ealandg

Did you include any "documentation" with the coin? Maybe you just switched the addresses on the envelopes? I would ask them what they received.

darktone

Russ, I have AOL but they don't.

ealandg,
if I switched coins with another person I think someone else would have contacted me also? mike

Conder101

<< <i>if I switched coins with another person I think someone else would have contacted me also? >>


Maybe, maybe not, all depends on what the other person got. Buy a jefferson nickel, get a gold piece and you may not complain.

darktone

Conder, This is one of the cheapest coins I have sold in a while so he made out pretty good if I gave him the wrong coin. You think if their actually was a mistake I would have heard back from him by now and he would tell me a little more than one liners saying he got the wrong coin? mike

darktone

Here's the latest email and it sounds like the situation has been resolved but I am really in awe that this could happen with I.D's through Paypal or ebay!. mike

<< <i>HI: I guess someone else has the same id&pasword as me.They wre sent the cion,they have contacted me and are sending the cion . I think it has been resolved. Thanks XXXXX ! >>

kranky

<< <i>Here's the latest email and it sounds like the situation has been resolved but I am really in awe that this could happen with I.D's through Paypal or ebay!. mike

<< <i>HI: I guess someone else has the same id&pasword as me.They wre sent the cion,they have contacted me and are sending the cion . I think it has been resolved. Thanks XXXXX ! >>

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Translated: Hi, I'm an idiot, and I finally figured out I had the right coin all along. But I don't know how to explain my earlier stupidity, so let me make up a lame story about someone who had the same username and password.

Russ

<< <i>Russ, I have AOL but they don't. >>



Wow! It's a parallel universe!

Russ, NCNE