Is this a Scam?
 

Well I have sold me Boat on E-bay,The buyer is from Germany,I have had some contact from them and it seems the deal is going down,They sent 500 dollar deposit via paypal ,and its in the account now,they have the Wire tranfers info and I am waiting for that now,They say that they are using a shipping co here in the US ,I will not release the boat until the funds are clearly in the bank,The Question I have now is ,What if any scams have you guys heard about this kind of transaction?It throws me alittle that the deposit came so soon,Or is this just a good deal going fine,
Any comments Please.

Ive done the same had no issued from a guy in Stockholm.
-Mike

If you are waiting for funds to clear before releasing, and the deposit was good, what do you have to lose??

Just make sure the money is in the bank like can you come get the cash. That there is no holds on the money.

I would transfer that money out of that account and into another account in your bank as soon as the money is in there. They sometimes have a way of going into your account and pulling the money back out. I would set up a seperate account for internet /wire transactions for this purpose. Tom

I would wait and ask for a letter from your bank that this will never get dragged back.

I have seen people get funds put in their acct from overseas and had it yanked back out.

Whether you transfer that $$$ to another acct or not your bank will want it back if its a chit transfer.

Who is the shipping company they hired??

Is it a real one??

Are they going to send you too much money and have some of it returned by you or have you give it to the shipping company ??

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sold 3 classics overseas, had the money transferred into an account solely set up for that purpose and waited until the bank would allow me to withdraw the money. All three transactions went very smoothly and never heard from the bank/ buyers again. Also spoke to the bank prior to accepting the funds.

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We have a zero balance account set up with auto transfers into our checking. The key is that there is also an ACH block on outgoing transfers. Took a while to find the right guy who understood what I wanted.

They did not want to do it, gave me all the reasons not too, yada yada, but finally did it.

I have my boat listed on ebay as well. Just the other day had a guy from Germany send me a message about doing the exact same thing as whats going on with you now.

I was very skeptical and didnt take it any further. Maybe same guy. Be careful.