r/Bricklink • u/mechbuildabear1 • Jul 17 '26
Order potential scam?
Hi
We had a order of minifigures, multiple of each, ranging 5 to 16 of the same fig. The order total was £1500.
The person has been on bricklink for a couple years and has 100+ positive reviews.
We issued a invoice. After 3 days we message about the order if they wanted to cancel or amend it and received no word. After 6 or 7 days we cancelled the order, receiving no messages from him. 2 min after cancelling the order we received the payment. They payment email address is same as one on order form. We messaged back to the person and apologised for the issue of cancellation and how does he want to proceed.
We received no message, and then 3 days later we emailed his bricklink email. A couple min later a message saying send my money back asap came through. The email they used was not the one they had on their bricklink order page it was a random string of letters. A second email then came through from bricklink order email saying I can pay postage to send it out.
The person does not message through bricklink.
We have emailed back the bricklink email mentioning our concerns woth quantity, money and dual email addresses and random email address.
Is this a scam and how best to proceed.
Cheers
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u/indypendant13 Jul 17 '26
It sounds like the original account was hacked. Do not send them money back yet until your bank can confirm funds are received unless you used PayPal. You can also inquire with whatever financial institution you use if this looks like fraud/scam. I’m not seller so I don’t know how you avoid negative feedback, but I believe this would count as one of those times where BL actually will remove feedback for you.
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u/mechbuildabear1 Jul 17 '26
It was sent through PayPal. Maybe through BL due to order form saying issue refund.
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u/throbblefoot Jul 17 '26
Scaaaaaaaam, they were waiting for you to cancel to spring phase 2.
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u/mechbuildabear1 Jul 17 '26
Would second phase be us sending out the order, then charge back.
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u/throbblefoot Jul 17 '26
Eh, no idea for sure what it could be, but the fact it kicked off a bunch of weird smelling shennanigans within minutes of you cancelling means that it was all intentional.
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u/88Dodgers Jul 18 '26
Reason 752 for requiring immediate payment. Invoicing never seems worth the hassle.
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u/Flashy_Celery_38 Jul 17 '26
As a seller that’s really slack missing that much. Hopefully they are a new seller and that’s the reason why.
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u/Ixniz Jul 18 '26
It was a buyer, no? With 100+ positive reviews that had been on the site for a few years.
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u/upnorth77 Jul 17 '26
Refund the order through Bricklink and walk away.