AIBU about Ebay buyer?

[Quietlyseethingonthesofa]

Just sold an item on ebay for just over £100. The buyer has just joined this year, no feedback, and their username is anychri1234 (numbers been changed) but the letters have been chosen to look like antichrist.

I am nervous about sending this one, I hear so much on here about eBay buyers scamming people. I did have my settings as no one able bid with feedback less than 10 however it's been so long since I have sold anything it looks like they have reset them.

Would you send this item? I have no issue with cancelling it and refunding the buyer what would you do?

Send it with insurance. If it 'goes missing' you'll get your money back. Everyone says hermes is crap but I usually always use them and have only had one item go missing and they paid me back the value of the item (what I sold it for not retail value) quite quickly. Alternatively use parcels2go add their insurance.

Someone has to use ebay for the first time.

Royal mail special delivery includes insurance up to a certain value, i think £250? It is pricey but worth it. You'd be covered that way.

Use Parcel2go, they offer tracked/signed for lots cheaper than Royal Mail.

Just to say as someone who has recently joined eBay that it made an automatic username with the first 3 letters of my first name and the first few letters of my surname.

So when you say the letters have been chosen to look like antichrist that’s probably not the case. Their name could be anya something?

As well as the ‘never received it, want my money back’ scam, there’s the one where the buyer has the same item already but it’s damaged somehow.
Buy a new one on eBay, then raise a dispute with eBay, but the photos will be of their broken item.

As mentioned, ebays default position is to trust the buyer.
OP loses her item, might have to pay to receive a broken one, and the buyer keeps the OPs new item.

For electronics, always take a photo of the serial number/phone IMEI of the item you send to protect against broken item switcheroo.