Hey all.
Im appealing to those who have used ebay a lot. I recently put a phone on ebay to sell (my first ever foray into ebay), and at the last few minutes of the auction the bids shot up from £50 to £800. Obviously this is a scam (and indeed the person who bid the highest wanted to buy the phone for his 'Nigerian brother', and had three user feedbacks all saying they were a scammer).

Being naive (stupid) I clearly could have done more to stop this happening, but thing is, now im going to get charged the sellers fee on this.

My questions (eventually) are:
1) When you send an invoice to a buyer, do they see any personal information about you? i.e. actual name, address etc)
(I havent sent them an invoice, I dont want to send them anything..apart from perhaps a steaming turd in an envelope)
2) What can I do to stop ebay charging me the fee (if anything)?
3) What are the best things to stop this happening in the future.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Just dispute it, ebay will refund sellers fees.

As for stopping it, the only way is to only allow approved bidders.

It's a big issue with eBay - with the 4 phones i've sold on eBay 2 have been "sold" to Nigerians once...

I'd contact eBay, tbh.