This sounds like it might be fraudulent and I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this one. I purchased an item on eBay, paid the seller and received the goods. Positive feedback posted on both sides. I have just received an email from that seller as follows: Hi (my first name here) I need your help selling on ebay. My website is www.<snip> You can take a look at the items that I sell. I store my inventory in my garage and I ship from there. I can provide you the verbiage for the listings as well as pics to list on ebay. When the item sells on ebay, I will also ship the items. You do not have to worry about anything at all. I will ship them. All you have to do is to relist the items when they sell on ebay and then once the money comes into your paypal account, you can transfer it to my paypal account, keeping your percentage and I will then ship the items. I would like to know what is it that you will charge for this service. Basically - I would like to know what % will your commission be after the sale has been made. I know that ebay charges around 11% probably and paypal also charges 2% or so?...so, after ebay's charge and after paypal charge, what is it that you will charge. Again! do keep in mind that I am making it really easy for you in the sense that I will be shipping the items from my home once I get the sold item's payment transferred into my paypal account OR you can pay me by check whatever way you want. I live in <SNIP> and feel free to call me to discuss if you are interested in this excellent opportunity to make some money on the side. <Seller's first name> <seller's phone number> Included in this email was a copy of the genuine PayPal receipt notifying the seller that I had paid for my purchase from him. It included my eBay ID, the correct item #, my email address, and the correct shipping name and address. This email was sent outside of eBay. The email address this message was sent from does not match the seller's email address as listed in PayPal. (The same name but @gmail instead of @usa net) I did a reverse search on the phone number provided in the email and it's a cell # in the same state as the seller wrote. This just smells like some kind of fraud to me -- I sell the item, collect the money, forward the money to the actual seller - they don't ship the item and the buyer comes after me for a refund - result, I'm out of pocket. Or - they place a huge order on "my" listing, pay for it, I forward the money (back) to them, they don't ship and then claim a refund against the transaction that was on my eBay ID - result, I'm out of pocket. I am not interested in taking them up on their "offer" and I didn't consider it for even a second but I've browsed through the "Fraud" postings in here and I haven't been able to spot anything similar. I'm just curious if this is potentially a new scam or if anyone has seen it before.
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