On October 20, 2018, I initiated a Buy it Now listing on eBay for a brand new in the package Intel i7 8700K CPU. 97 The listing may be found here.

After purchasing my item on October 21, 2018, the buyer (qbws_us_2iimstaxd) no longer registered, paid for it using PayPal from a non-U.S. bank account. I sent the item on 10/21/18, and it was delivered to San Diego at the following address on 10/24/18:

Gu Wen Cheng
325 W Washington St Ste 2937
San Diego, CA 92103
United States

Between the time that the item was purchased and the item was delivered, the buyer's account was suspended by eBay.

On October 30, 2018, within a week of the item being delivered, an Item Not as Described claim was filed against me. I immediately did some research on Google, and found information on this website that the buyer and/or their suspected associates pulled nearly identical ploys against other eBay sellers.

During the course of the dispute, the buyer was asked to return the item to me in order to receive a refund. A tracking number was provided by the buyer, per PayPal request. Per the USPS, the tracking number showed a delivery on November 6, 2018, to a location in my zip code of a few miles away from my address.

In the meantime, I have filed a mail fraud report with the US Postal Inspection Service, a police report with the Police Department for suspicious activity, and also a report with the Internet Crime Complaint Center. I hope that this theft ring is caught as soon as possible.

The buyer's domain name is registered by GoDaddy.com, and the registrant country is Hong Kong.