I think a lot of people in this thread aren’t really familiar with Yahoo’s “buyer protection” or lack thereof. I’ll copy-paste what I wrote about it a year ago or so in the Giant Japanese Market Thread:
There is very limited “buyer protection” which is nothing like what we have in the west. I did some more research on the buyer protection policies and here’s what I found. As I mentioned above, Yahoo acts as a payment intermediary. Payment first goes to them, and then the seller ships the item. Once the item arrives, the buyer confirms receipt, and Yahoo irreversibly pays the seller. If the seller sends something completely different or the item never arrives, I believe Yahoo can withhold payment to the seller and facilitate some kind of exchange between buyer and seller to work something out. However, the seller can simply deny the request and be paid anyways. Then the buyer would have to go through a convoluted support process to be entitled to a refund which caps at 10,000 JPY. Getting a return or refund almost entirely relies on buyer-seller communication. But many sellers will explicitly say they won’t engage in any kind of negotiation process if the item isn’t as described: “no claim, no return.”
This should be covered under Buyee’s protection policy. It looks like Buyee has already blocked the seller. However, this would probably not get a seller kicked off Yahoo as their “protection” is like a stapled condom.
Based on the description, this seems to be a clear “westerner bait” listing which is designed to entice western buyers into bidding on a scam lot. The good thing is that a lot of these listings are relatively easy to sniff out if you know what you’re looking for. Reading the description is super important, as they will often bury things like this in there. The standard “do not bid if you are nervous” isn’t a worry, but anything that alludes to sending the pictured cards OR something else, “we are unable to confirm all cards are present,” “we will not deal with those who cannot communicate in Japanese” are red flags to be aware of.