Is this a scam?

[walshydub]

Yep- one of the most common scams. It's often done with cars as well...

Drop it like a hot spud

Cool cheers. Just out of interest, how do they get money out of you?

[Spyda]

Yeah scam. Ebay tells you not to use Western Union because its anonymous.

Do what you can to report him or the situation to paypal and ebay. I know ebay does what it can to block them and black list them and paypal wouldnt like it much either.

[ian]

Yes my brother was selling a car on Ebay and got the same run around, except he was buying it for his father and he was stuck on an oil rig some where , but it was the same scam.

[walshydub]

Yeah scam. Ebay tells you not to use Western Union because its anonymous.

Do what you can to report him or the situation to paypal and ebay. I know ebay does what it can to block them and black list them and paypal wouldnt like it much either.

Will do. The original email came from an ebayer with a legit looking account, so i guess it had been hacked. I sent an email back to him saying i knew it was a scam and told them to F**k off & blocked their email. Should be the end of it.
The old adage, if its too good to be true, it is!

[Jarred]

SCAM!

I've seen a few similar ones, through bike and carsales before. It's always "I'm overseas at the moment, but I'll give you a link to a dogey paypal and steal your money" kinda thing

[walshydub]

It started getting suspicious when they said the were going to buy & pick up the wheels, then all of a sudden they were out of the county. Then i looked at their ebay profile & it said they were in the U.S but they wanted them shipped to the U.K.
If you are gonna scam someone, get your story straight!

[Wolfgang]

Not only ebay, had the same sort of thing when I had a car on carsales last year.