Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

[farflungstar]

Platine Verdier with triplanar - auction but wants bin at 1350€ - only communicate outside of eBay. I asked for much shipping would be - I received confirmation of purchase, an eBay invoice from the seller and a demand for a moneygram transfer. I can't report him on my mobile but he needs reporting.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...377904&alt=web

[farflungstar]

Reported.

[Macca]

What's the scam putting really expensive gear on auction but only bin at silly prices, wire transfer, based in Taiwan, lots of feedback. It has to be a scam right?

A scam, or possibly a scamola.

[Barry]

I'm confused - the eBay listing is still running with 8 hours to go. Current bid is 306 Euro.

Looks suspicious to me!

[struth]

EBay act like Molasses in wintertime

[farflungstar]

It's reported and eBay needs to take it down - god knows how many people have sent money via moneygram to him. No way of tracing the recipient. It says located in US,/but postage says from Hong Kong. But the eBay invoice he sent me (not eBay) came from a British email account. In his email ( he sent 4) he says he had supplied the details to eBay so I was covered by my purchase (which I'd never made).

In the listing it says he will remove any bids because he wants buy it now - all said in an image so bots don't find it.

It's a scam without doubt -looking at his other items I'd say everything is stolen or taken from other listings or its a hijacked account.

[Barry]

Agree $1,500 is a suspiciously low price for such an item. The arm alone could easily fetch that.

[farflungstar]

Having looked at the 'eBay' email he sent me it has my registered delivery address on it. How can he have obtained it? He says he has told eBay about the purchase to enrol us in buyer protection and that they have contacted me - they haven't and according to my account I've not made a purchase.

The moneygram payment is to be sent to an address in Cardiff, a guy called Samuel Still. Yet the turntable is in California or China?

If I was in the UK I'd probably call the Cardiff police and ask them to investigate.

Confused.

Ok I just checked the email address the 'ebay' email was sent from, it was registered with a domain company called namecheap in MAY of this year.

Unfortunately there is no way to explain everything to eBay - just a crappy report item form with pre defined reasons. This guy is scamming people and somehow getting their registered details.

Angry.

[karma67]

id give them a call mate

[farflungstar]

Ebay have confirmed the email is fraudulent - and done nothing about the seller. angry