Oddball Question About Shipping, Particularly a Weird Number in an Address Line...

Ask the buyer? Not being facetious, that's what I'd do. If I got no response I'd probably think scammer.

jamesg1213
Ask the buyer? Not being facetious, that's what I'd do. If I got no response I'd probably think scammer.

No, I hear ya.  And I did.  He said it's a "private mailing number."  Again, never heard of such a thing.  I responded back just saying that the buyer got a little defensive saying "just ship it to the address with the number."  That's when I saw the red flags and slammed on the brakes.

Kind of a dumb post, I know.  Anyway, I cancelled the transaction, refunded the cash, and reported the buyer. 
 
Beware of weird numbers in address lines!

So you were selling and got the cash not buying and sending money into the great unknown.
 
Depending on what you were selling, the big thing is the buyer is a parts robber, takes good parts out of the stuff you sell him(ham radio stuff is a big scam for that) puts his bad part in, notifies ebay it isnt working, gets a refund and you now have a junk article with bad parts in it

Additionally, on a side note, if you're looking to buy a used audio interface, Focusrites of the Saffire variety (Firewire) are going stupid cheap right now on eBay, even undercutting Reverb.com by a long-shot. Kind of kicking myself for paying a little more for one on Reverb, but that's the way the ball bounces I guess.

Ham N Egz
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Depending on what you were selling, the big thing is the buyer is a parts robber, takes good parts out of the stuff you sell him(ham radio stuff is a big scam for that) puts his bad part in, notifies ebay it isnt working, gets a refund and you now have a junk article with bad parts in it

Love that scam!
 
The guys running a 6 story parking garage on Rush St. in Chicago got busted years ago for something similar. The garage had elevators, no ramps. Attendants would park your car. They would ask you how long you'd be and park it 'appropriately'. What the place was, was an engine swap. Somebody needed a new Corvette engine? They'd park it on the upper level and swap in the piece of junk for the new one. Never got caught. Until one day, some lugnut forgot to put the engine mounting bolts back in. The owner got less than a block when the engine and tranny fell to the ground! LMAO!

There's some guy from Belarus selling all kinds of vst's and samples on ebay.  I reported him twice and ebay never did anything.  He's selling everything so cheap, I have a feeling he's trying to install a payload on someone's computer.  So beware cheap vst's and samples on ebay.  They're not license transfer's but him getting you to download from a drop box account and install on your computer.

So here we go again: Sold another item on eBay, this time a freakin' new-old stock laptop power supply.  Receive a payment from another foreigner (PayPal name written in Cyrillic) and email address Ukrainian.  Shipping address is in New Jersey (the last one was as well), but Google puts it at some big shipping warehouse.  Apparently, [past] words have been mentioned in the eBay community about this place as well, as in "fishy" or don't ship there; possible scam and/or a scam.  However, some folks say just ship because delivery tracking will prove it was delivered so PayPal will provide protection if a possible scam.  Others say it is an export service to the Ukraine; It's okay.  It doesn't sound OK to me!
 
600 Markley St Ste 018190
Meest-America, Inc.
 
Exactly.  Sounds fishy AF. 
 
https://www.bbb.org/new-j...rt-reading-nj-18001685
 
Reading the above BBB profile, well, maybe it's actually a legit business.  But for what?  Very strange.  I mean if someone in the Ukraine wants to buy the power supply then why not just bid like anyone else, win it yourself, and pay for it yourself?!?  I guess this is somebody's way to circumvent the "I don't ship internationally" checkbox in eBay.
 
I think I'm done with eBay.  This is ridiculous.