Email Death Threats from ebay transaction go wrong....what should I do?

Question

I offered them $40 and they say they'll take $65. I counter offered $52.50. They said $55 and I replied.

I would've met you 1/2 way between my original offer and the counter offer, but since your ad said "YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL ME WITH OFFERS AND IF ITEM DOES NOT SALE IT WILL SALE TO HIGHEST OFFER"....So since you contacted me, I am left to assume that $40 was the highest offer. There is a thing on ebay called 'reserve price'. When you re-advertise your chest freezer, I suggest you use it."

To which I received, what I would consider, 2 death threats #1 "why don't you come on down to louisville and once you get your face smashed i'll put you in the freezer (for free and ship your *** home in it!) #2 i'll put your little ***** *** in the freezer and ship you back to your mama if your dead when you get there oh well ....."IS THIS FELONY THREAT"? Here is the link to the original ad http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130139296095&sspagename=ADME:L:RTQ:US:1

Answer 1

Most of the posters are correct, ebay should handle this. But I believe that is far beyond and ebay problem. Any death threats should be turned over to your local law enforcement. It is obvious they have a serious problem.

Answer 2

I'd send eBay a note about the seller in this case. If nothing else, the seller will get into trouble for offering to sell an item outside of eBay. We sellers are NOT allowed to do that.

eBay will send them a warning note, and if they get reported another couple of times (not sure of the exact number), they may get suspended.

Also let eBay know about the death threats. The seller is using the eBay format for giving you threats. That's probably in violation of one of their rules, too.

Answer 3

Turn them into ebay so their account can be suspended. And take the email to the local law enforcement office. They could help you notify the authorities in LA about these threats. you should also notify the post office. They were offering to ship this to you? I believe that would constitute mail/wire fraud too. It is a federal crime

Answer 4

Can eBay provide you the actual area of the service provider? If he's 0.5 way around the globe you could relax somewhat. i could think of the Police could % to recognize who this fellow is and the place he's. report the risk to the police - provide them a duplicate of the message, and that they gets eBay's cooperation. What occurred for somebody to threaten to kill you?

Answer 5

Take it up with Ebay. Why are you on Yahoo Answers asking this question? Ebay has a whole system set up to deal with this kind of stuff.


It is kind of moronic to ignore Ebay, who can help you, and run to Yahoo Answers to ask this. If Ebay cannot help you then you are probably out of luck. I doubt you will get a federal case out of this whole thing.

Answer 6

The guy sounds pretty juvenile according to your info, however when you read his feedback he has pretty much all positives. something sounds weird here?