Update on the eBay Scam

Last week I wrote about how I thought I was being scammed by someone on eBay. In the post I said the following:

I've asked eBay to step in and help resolve the situation, so we will see what happens. But there's a lot of buyer protection on eBay (and rightly so) but there's very little in the way of seller protection, even though I'm not a business. So I have a feeling they will find in favour of the buyer and I'll be out a few quid.

Well, a few days after publishing that post, I received an automated email from eBay, saying:

I then logged into eBay to check the conversation I'd had with this user via the eBay messenger. At the bottom of the message thread, there was a notice that said:

So it seems that eBay, for whatever reason, deemed the user's account to be problematic enough to warrant a suspension/termination.

What now?

Honestly, I don't know. I haven't had the payment for the watch taken from my account, and eBay haven't requested that I refund the payment. So I assume that I get to keep Ollee watch, and the money the potential scammer originally paid.

We message back and forth on WhatsApp, and they haven't messaged me there - if I were in their position and a legit buyer, I'd be seething and would have definitely messaged on WhatsApp. So something tells me this isn't their first rodeo, and the potential loss is just collateral damage.

Does this mean that for once the scammers have lost? We'll see. At this point I think the issue is closed from an eBay perspective, so I'm planning to re-list the Ollee Watch for a much discounted price in the next few. If eBay subsequently request the money be returned to the scammy user, I'll just have to take the hit on that.

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