How do you sell stuff on ebay?

Hello all, I'd like to sell a brand new mobile phone (HTC DIAMOND BNIB) on ebay without have some arsehole hijacking my listing, trying to scam me (by asking me to send it to Nigeria!).

I am sure there are methodologies to making it work. Can any of you advise me on how to go about doing this?

Cheers

below is a transcript of our last exchange:

disclaimer: it does get a little colourful

genius.

Always list as ship to UK only. At least that way you can legitimately refuse to sell to overseas buyers.

Paypal is owned by ebay. The "buyer" is claiming to have contacted them at something that looks like a fake e-mail account. If you report them too ebay, they'll check it out and most likely suspend the buyers account and refund the listing fee.

Thanks

sell to UK only, wait for payment to clear, always send recorded/special delivery.

the initial confirmation from the seller had a UK address, then she requested the item be shipped to W Africa

crafty

report them to ebay
there was a lot of scams coming out of africa on ebay last year,
re-list and tell them to fnckoff!

block people with low/neg feedback.

report the buyer for not paying and you get fees back - in the end

the initial confirmation from the seller had a UK address, then she requested the item be shipped to W Africa

Had that before. Whilst it still wasn't a definite scam I said I couldn't do that because I couldn't get the item insured at the Royal Mail and wasn't prepared to accept the liability. Then they went down the cleared papyment route. Paypal confirmed scam and ebay quite quick about listing refund.

I have my paypal set up to only ship to UK plus I have buyer requirements:
Block buyers who:

• Don't have a PayPal account
  
• Have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 1 Month(s).
  
• Are registered in countries to which I don't post
  
• Have a feedback score of -1 or lower
  
  

Which can be found in "Site preferences"

i wont bother replying

ps. egay has suspended 2 of my accounts, though i were scaming people, where as i have just moved to hong kong and opened a new paypal account

Aha, thanks for the pearl.