Hi!
I recently completed an auction ni which I sold a bit of Pentax gear to a buyer in Italy. For a variety of reasons, each of which sounds legit, he cannot PayPal the funds and cannot use BidPay. He's asked for my bank account number so he can do a wire transfer, but that sounds suspiscious to me and I'm not inclined ot give it out (as if my wife would tell me what it is anyhow...)
Is there a way in which given the credit card number of that person you would charge them directly through credit company?
So what's the deal? I can go to any post office here and buy an international money order for a reasonable fee. Can't that be done in
Europe as well?
In Israel, which is not part of EU though, you can walk into any post office and "Western Union" the money to almost any place, and of course to US too.
At this point I've told the guy that the auction terms are clear (PayPal, money order, or cashier check) so he needs to come up with
one or be NPB. But I wonder if he is having legit problems or if this
is some sort of ruse.
I'd be as paranoid as you are. After all, the terms were written and should've been read BEFORE that person placed their bid.
My first "enablement" was of the same kind. I had no way to transfer the money. Fortunately, at the time the list member was kind enough to wait until I open my PayPal acct.
By the way, all one has to have to be able to open a PayPal acct is a credit card that is not local to their country. If that person has no such credit card, it is suspicious already.
But then again, when it comes to banking I am mighty paranoid myself.
Boris
