Help!!! I was selling a treadmill on gumtree and a woman messaged saying she’d love to buy it the item itself was £170 and she agreed to pay this and said she couldn’t pick it up herself but would send a courier on her behalf to do so, I agreed with this as it all seemed legit. However now without even saying to me she has sent £470 to my PayPal saying it’s sent as merchandising and the funds won’t show in my account until I send a bank transfer of £300 to her courier from my own money and then PayPal will refund me once I send them a screenshot that I’ve done the bank transfer... I’ve never heard of this before and I’m wary of sending the money incase I don’t get mine back from PayPal... nonetheless she never asked if I could afford to send £300 out of my own pocket in the first place!!
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