So was the box intercepted at his address or did you send it to a different address to the account holder who then emailed you as someone then sent him on a empty box? Did he even order the clock in the first place?
All sounds very strange... On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:48:58 UTC+1, Paul Parry wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > Just a heads up, there appears to be some one in France with a taste for > Nixie Clocks. > > I had a French customer hit Buy It Now on eBay on a £229 clock, I received > notification through from Paypal that all was ok and given a confirmed > shipping address, so sent it tracked via UPS and thought no more of it. > > I then received an email from this French chap today querying why I had > sent him an empty box. He was just as confused as I was - I had a signed > Proof of delivery from UPS. He then explained that someone had hacked his > eBay account and more importantly his Credit card details. Someone had > logged into his eBay account, brought my clock and then given a false > delivery address. He has reported this to the Police and his Bank. > > The French Guy had also reported this to Paypal about 3 weeks ago, and > thankfully because he had done this, they were aware of Fraud on his > account. The next thing I knew is that Paypal had removed £259 from my > account and put it on hold. Interestingly the French guy never opened a > case on eBay or with Paypal. I called Paypal and they will refund my money > and also the money back to the French guy. > > If anyone has recently sold a clock to France, just email the buyer and > check it is Legit.. as someone there seems to like them. > > Cheers, > Paul > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f1ab1806-5d8b-4ffe-8d9c-5b7e057c077d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
