Thread by @bradcolbow, I'm in the process of being scammed by someone on Ebay. This [...]

I& #39;m in the process of being scammed by someone on Ebay.
This is the 3rd person who has tried to scam me while selling this thing and now I just want to mess with them and bring you all along for the ride of course. So here we go! /1

I& #39;m selling the Surface Book I reviewed a few months back. I buy most of what I review. I like to make some of the $ back so I can buy more stuff to review.
This morning I accepted a bid for the sale price of $1300. /2

When they bought it I got this message:

Whenever someone wants your email address or phone number or direct contact with you on Ebay it& #39;s bad news. They want to leave the site so they don& #39;t have to play by the site& #39;s rules. /4

I didn& #39;t want to play the text them game so after a few hours without them paying for the item they purchased I sent an invoice. This is Ebay& #39;s way of gently reminding them to pay for what they bought. /5

Then I got this... an email that looks like it& #39;s from Ebay saying they paid for it so that I would mail it to them.
Clearly this didn& #39;t come from Ebay and I never received the money.

So I decided to ignore it until I got this follow up message.

So. The game is afoot.
I have an address in Arkansas to ship this to (don& #39;t worry I& #39;m not).
I want to ship SOMETHING... and make it look like it& #39;s the package. The question is what? Also what& #39;s the best way to lead this person on for as long as possible? /8

I want to text this person but I don& #39;t want them to have my real phone number. is there a way to do that? /9

Yay! I have a google voice number to text them with now!

Message sent. I& #39;m trying to play dumb but not to dumb. I& #39;ll let you know what they say.

Oh, now they are changing the type of shipping on me

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Oh, now they are changing the type of shipping on me https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

I think I& #39;m going to play dumb and ship it snail mail. pretend I didn& #39;t see his last message.

Next step, I& #39;m going to wait a little bit then tell him I got back from the post office and he should have it in 2 days. He will probably ask for a confirmation number. I won& #39;t have one but I did manage to take a picture of the box as proof that I mailed it.

If all goes well he will notice I inverted the numbers on his address and freak out.
Also, I should point out I have mailed nothing.

Ok, I told him he didn& #39;t pay for Fed EX

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Ok, I told him he didn& #39;t pay for Fed EX https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

He hasn& #39;t noticed the wrong address yet but he seems to buying the story.

He asked about a receipt. I had to think on my feet. seems to be buying it.

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