More ebay Scammage?
04-05-07, 11:22 AM
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More ebay Scammage?
Just a heads up, in case you've bid on one of this seller's bikes:
https://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-2007-O...QQcmdZViewItem
He/she's never sold a bike in the past but has about 30 new bikes for sale, starting bid $.10 for each one, free shipping, is asking to be contacted by email outside of ebay. Something smells.
Cheers.
https://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-2007-O...QQcmdZViewItem
He/she's never sold a bike in the past but has about 30 new bikes for sale, starting bid $.10 for each one, free shipping, is asking to be contacted by email outside of ebay. Something smells.
Cheers.
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Reported to eBay. You can as well.
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04-05-07, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by blacksquid
Reported to eBay. You can as well.
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^^^^ No problem. This aution is particularly bad since I'm still waiting for my 2007 Orca frameset and the guy is selling Orbeas. 
Mine should be here on the 10th of this month though. 
Mine should be here on the 10th of this month though.
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Most likely a hijacked seller account. How this constantly happens is beyond me. Email the guy and ask him if he is using his ill gotten gains to fund terrorism? You know tracking of all the keywords in your email. And then tell him when GW's spys get him it will not be pretty.
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So, the seller takes paypal. Isn't there some protection from that?
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Originally Posted by oilman_15106
Most likely a hijacked seller account. How this constantly happens is beyond me. Email the guy and ask him if he is using his ill gotten gains to fund terrorism? You know tracking of all the keywords in your email. And then tell him when GW's spys get him it will not be pretty.
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Originally Posted by Mariner Fan
So, the seller takes paypal. Isn't there some protection from that?
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Originally Posted by blacksquid
Oilman has correctly pointed out that the account has probably been hijacked so the PayPal account belongs to the hijackee. The guy is hoping to harvest more eBay accounts through his attempt to get people to send their eBay accounts to him/her.
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Originally Posted by Mariner Fan
Geez, I should have figured that out since my E-Bay account was hacked once. The hacker used my account to try to sell hundreds of porn pictures. How nice of him!
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This kind of ad was pretty popular last year when I was looking at Tarmacs. Dozens of tricked out Tarmacs would be for sale there, all with requests to email them at a certain address for a sale outside of eBay. I reported all of them that I could find and eventually I noticed that they stopped being so frequent. Probably an account hack, too.
04-05-07, 12:48 PM
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Same Listing for a Specialized Roubaix as well.
https://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-2007-S...QQcmdZViewItem
https://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-2007-S...QQcmdZViewItem
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i get an email from "ebay" on a daily basis with all types of titles: buyer needs info, your item has been sold, paypal fund transfer... all of them look very official. SCAMS. just a warning.
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Originally Posted by Munk69
Same Listing for a Specialized Roubaix as well.
https://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-2007-S...QQcmdZViewItem
https://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-2007-S...QQcmdZViewItem
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Looks like all of the bikes by this "seller" have been removed.
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I've seen an inordinate amount of these scams with Cervelo bikes.
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This guy had 31 auctions for different mid/high end bikes. Orbeas, Specialized, Cervelo, etc. The amazing part is that a lot of the auctions had multiple bids! I don't understand why people never do any checking.
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