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Currently have a car up for auction. Was contacted by eBay member who wants to bid, but is in Sweden. Auction ad states $500 deposit due within 48 hrs, balance in cash when picking up car.

This potential buyer has been on eBay since 2015, has a 100% positive feedback but it only numbers (4). He gave his name, same named person in Sweden has a FB page, there are a few pics of cars there; apparently he recently sold a '58 Lincoln.

He asked/offered other ways of payment, asked about bank transfer or paying in full thru PayPal.

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There's no way for an in-full payment thru PP to go awry, is there? If the money appears, I transfer it to my bank account, THEN release the car, I'm in the clear, yes?

4 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

you also may get an oddball amount due to exchange rates.

FWIW, the Swedish Krona is currently 0.1193 to 1 USD.

So be careful for that as well. 

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Sniffed around, could not find the exact chain of events as far as someone sending money from Sweden to the US; the conversion would have to occur on their end or else people would consistently get the wrong amounts... but all the PP links I looked at didn't give that answer.

Guy wanted a BIN number. I countered with a number $700 higher to stop it, we agreed to let the auction roll to the end (4 more days). Hopefully some fool buys it.

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