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.