I was looking at Ixalan boxes on ebay yesterday and today, and have found what is almost certainly a scam artist.
First it was seller smgroup1 selling Ixalan boxes for $79.90. He had 2 feedback, 0 previous Magic sales, and no other Magic products for sale, suddenly he has 15 boxes for sale (all sold).
Then it was seller thev_trends, selling for the same $79.90. 42 feedback, 0 previous Magic sales, no other Magic products for sale, suddenly he has 32 boxes for sale (all sold).
Now today it's seller top_sale17, selling 5 boxes, now for $80.90 (3 boxes sold, 2 unsold so far), ZERO feedback. No other Magic products for sale.
ALL THREE use the same distinctive auction listing format (fonts, colors, layout, same exact text word-for-word, etc), all three are supposedly located in St. Louis, and all three are also selling another identical item, an unusual identical monkey finger puppets. It's obviously one person with multiple accounts. Lots of people are about to be disappointed. I've reported top_sale17's listing to ebay but it's automated and there's no place to enter in the information I've gathered so I'm uncertain the listing will come down, because on it's own it's not particularly suspicious (other than a price that's notquite too good to be true, making it all the more likely more people will fall for it).
BTW, if anyone knows how to report a seller rather than report a listing, feel free to let me know.
You can call ebay customer service and explain the situation so they can look into it. Otherwise not sure. I know I've had to report shady or downright scammy sellers on ebay like that before via calling ebay customer service and that worked out okay. No guarantee that anything will be done, but if an individual seller does have 3 accounts and ebay can verify that along with any sort of suspicious activity it would go a long way towards them being able to do something at least. Anyhow, thanks for letting us know :).
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First it was seller smgroup1 selling Ixalan boxes for $79.90. He had 2 feedback, 0 previous Magic sales, and no other Magic products for sale, suddenly he has 15 boxes for sale (all sold).
Then it was seller thev_trends, selling for the same $79.90. 42 feedback, 0 previous Magic sales, no other Magic products for sale, suddenly he has 32 boxes for sale (all sold).
Now today it's seller top_sale17, selling 5 boxes, now for $80.90 (3 boxes sold, 2 unsold so far), ZERO feedback. No other Magic products for sale.
ALL THREE use the same distinctive auction listing format (fonts, colors, layout, same exact text word-for-word, etc), all three are supposedly located in St. Louis, and all three are also selling another identical item, an unusual identical monkey finger puppets. It's obviously one person with multiple accounts. Lots of people are about to be disappointed. I've reported top_sale17's listing to ebay but it's automated and there's no place to enter in the information I've gathered so I'm uncertain the listing will come down, because on it's own it's not particularly suspicious (other than a price that's notquite too good to be true, making it all the more likely more people will fall for it).
BTW, if anyone knows how to report a seller rather than report a listing, feel free to let me know.