Final update - all gift cards sent by mkheav are legit and I have successfully redeemed them through ebay. He's been also genuinely apologetic for the whole ordeal and I personally believe that he was honestly caught up by work/life. Good luck to all legit members who are trading on classified.
Hey all,
Long time ozb member here and have traded with numerous users previously without much of an issue.
However, I've got a feeling that I might have been caught this time.
For context, I recently put up a post in Classified looking for $600 discounted eBay gift cards. Several users approved me via PM but their cards are all in $50s which means I cannot use all of them in a single transaction. Early morning yesterday, user @mkheav pm'd me offering cards in $150s at 10% off. I've checked his profile and it looks quite legit to me. Therefore, I thought it sounded perfect and paid $540 for 4x150 cards through provided PayID at around 10:00 am. He responded quite late at 1:30pm saying that he's received the fund and would be sending over the cards shortly.
However, until now he's been offline and surely enough not responding to any pm, SMS or phone calls.
From my past experience, users always answered messages within an hour and at worst would come back within 4 hours during a trade. @mkheav's activity history also looked very legit but I suspect that either his account got hacked or he's decided to start scamming people out of the blue.
I have already reported him to the mods and just like to make a post here in case he's approaching anyone else in the meantime.
Update: seller just called me back at 10:45am saying he's been caught up with work and will send over the cards within today. Fingers crossed.
Update2: Seller has sent through all cards at 12:25pm and I will make my purchase soon to validate.
See top of the post for final updates
A lot of risk involved to save $60.