NOW I SEE WHY PEOPLE IN THE UK EXPLICITLY SAY _DO NOT BID IF YOU ARE FROM NIGERIA OR FROM ANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES_!!!!!!!
yeah dude, all I can say is..if you get the money cool shove it in your bank account before you ship... and nobody can take it back out.. if not, it is a pure scam.
on a brighter note, amptor is a friendly ebayer... one time I had a guy from Bosnia bidding on my dvd burner (brand new in box, mind you, not used or anything).. so it was an 18x sony burner right... anyway, he made one of the lower bids and asked how much $ it'd cost to ship to Bosnia. I was like bonsia wtf, so I threw out a figure..usually USPS.com lies to me and undercuts the shipping cost, so I looked it up on there and added a few bucks on because that normally makes it within 50 cents of the shipping charge at the post office so that neither party is ripped off by them. Anyhow, now that this paragraph is getting long... I figured the guy would get outbid anyway and he wouldn't go for the shipping charge so I was in the clear. WRONG! lol. so he eventually won the auction and paid me via paypal. So I put the money into my bank account and waited a couple days, then on the second day I went and shipped it and I forgot but I think that day or the day after it cleared with paypal and went into my bank account. So I shipped the item to him with delivery confirmation. He didn't want insurance though because his duty would've been more had I done that. So eventually I get an email from him saying he got the drive and he liked it a lot. I was wary of dealing with someone from a communist country, but it turned out fine. I just would probably still be very skeptical of a Nigerian bidder and also a bigger problem with Nigerian bidders is they potentially can scare away other bidders from your auction. I think they should be banned.
