How Buying or Selling Amazon or Argos Vouchers on E-bay Can Turn into a Dangerous Scam

If you are into the making money online game - for example through writing, then the time will probably come that you have to many Amazon vouchers and want to offload some on E-bay. 

You will see that there is quite a market for this as not everyone has a credit card. It's a dangerous game to play though. 

If you are a seller beware that:

Hypothetical Situation #1 -The buyer makes the purchase, sends the money over. You send them the code. You check your paypal account a few hours later and the transaction is frozen because the buyer's account is expected to be fraudulent. They've used your code and you don't get the money.

Hypothetical Situation #2 - The buyer makes the purchase and sends the money over. You send them the code. The buyer makes a claim on paypal that he didn't get the item. In the past this was a common occurrence and you would get neither money or code. I believe that this is no longer possible and that's because of situation #3.

There are plenty of people there that see that buying a $100 Amazon voucher for $90 is good business but it's not always the case. If you are a buyer beware that:

Hypothetical Situation #3 - As a buyer you send them the money. You do not get your code. You contact E-bay or Paypal but they cannot help. They do not protect buyers of Vouchers.

This applies not only to Amazon vouchers but to all types of vouchers on E-bay.

Beware of a costly E-bay scam related to people buying vouchers

There's numerous reviewing services out there offering Amazon vouchers, there's only so much shopping someone can do on Amazon and if you are earning a fair portion of them, it won't be long before you look to sell them. Whilst it's against Amazon Terms and Conditions, E-bay seem to allow it. Unfortunately the scammers have also found an opportunity here. There are two methods.

1/ Someone buys the voucher from you, you send them the voucher code, they leave you positive feedback (or sometimes none at all), they then claim to have had their account hacked and no nothing about the deal. Paypal refund their money because there's no proof of postage (considering it's an e-mailed item). E-bay are not interested at all.

2/ Someone is genuinely hacked by someone hacking people's accounts to obtain voucher codes but it works the same way as no.1.

It's common for them to buy loads of amazon vouchers from all the dealers on there,so keep in contact with your peers. The best way to prevent this is when it happens to withdraw the money from paypal immediately and call paypal to inform them of what's happened - they should protect your sale. E-bay won't be interested at all though.

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People have been selling info on e-bay as long as e-bay has existed, especially on how to make money on e-bay. Most people seem to know how to make money on e-bay in their heart but by these books just for confirmation and yet still don't follow the methods. E-bay is quite hard work though and if you want to make a big profit, it reqires a lot of work, it's not for someone to do a few minutes of it a day. This book has nothing new - so do you really need to pay £100 a year for it?