I wanted to sell a dress. I accepted an offer. The buyer asked to send more pictures to her email address which I did. She requested me to buy 2 gift cards of £500 as apparently was for a birthday. I bought one of £270 and receive an email from payments team that I have to buy the other one in order to release the full amount. I looked on ebay and it appreared item purchased by .....(buyer name). I was confident that everything was ok as I clearly saw the word purchased (which means bought) on ebay. Plus the email confirmations from payments team to actually find out that everything was a scam. Not only that I lost the other buyers but I lost money as well. I really recomend everyone to stay away from ebay as in my case was a genuine mistake that I was new and I didn’t know that I shouldn’t communicate outside ebay website. They do not check the buyer identity. The do not cover your loss in case of fraud through their website. They also state online item purchased and the item is not even paid. They do not facilitate to buyer -seller experience through chat in order to avoid using personal email or messages. In my experience if I had the option to send the pictures through chat I would not have ended up losing money. Overall I am very dissapointed by this experience speacially now that I read all the other reviews.