Is this a scam?

[gareth_oau]

I understand the reason they use paypal, from what I have heard:

they pay payal, which goes into your account
you release the goods
once they receive the goods, they lodge a dispute with paypal.
paypal reverses the transaction, and if you have no credit on there, they charge your credit card.
buyer disapears with your wheels

seems paypal is flawed - if anything, the money should go into escrow whilst the dispute is assesed, not given back to the buyer

[walshydub]

Do forward this to EBay so they can shut down the user, if you get on it quick, less chance of others getting scammed too.

I've emailed Paypal, but can't get onto ebay as it's blocked at work.

[walshydub]

I understand the reason they use paypal, from what I have heard:

they pay payal, which goes into your account
you release the goods
once they receive the goods, they lodge a dispute with paypal.
paypal reverses the transaction, and if you have no credit on there, they charge your credit card.
buyer disapears with your wheels

seems paypal is flawed - if anything, the money should go into escrow whilst the dispute is assesed, not given back to the buyer

Good job that didn't happen. I would have gone through with it if there were monies transfered to my paypla account. Fortunatley they didn't, just sent me a fake emails saing the money had been deposited.
Seriously how dumb do they think people are, the fake email said $2100 had been deposited but my pay pal account showed $0.00. Do people really transfer large amounts of money to strangers without checking first?