the same old tired fake auction

[burntboy]

this apparent scam http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32748&item=2244769884&rd=1ran about a half dozen times late last year. i must have alerted e-bay 4-5 times. each time it was a different seller who had little/no prior comic selling experience, hadn't had an auction in many months. was running a private auction, 3 days only, yada, yada, yada.this time there's an added attraction - private feedback.

 

when you get pre -approved it's a totally different person. i can't tell you how many different e-bay and internet account names got used. and it was always the same unique 19 books. e-bay pulled it each time, but you'd think they'd have a means of not letting these through time after time.

 

somebody could definitely fall for this crapola

[texasknight]

bogus auction

[the_Greatest]

LMFAO....." You work hard, you deserve some treasure."

[goldust40]

LMFAO....." You work hard, you deserve some treasure."

 

Yeah, that made me cringe too. Apparently some scammers want to put a spin on their auctions now. "You work hard, you deserve to be ripped off by a sleazebucket who's learnt a bit of sugar-coated advertising speak."

[Ares]

LMFAO....." You work hard, you deserve some treasure."

 

Yeah, that made me cringe too. Apparently some scammers want to put a spin on their auctions now. "You work hard, you deserve to be ripped off by a sleazebucket who's learnt a bit of sugar-coated advertising speak."

these guys say you have to be on a pre-approved bidders list but they never ad anyone to the list!

 

All they do is collect emails to say you can buy it for a set price but never let you bid

[burntboy]

LMFAO....." You work hard, you deserve some treasure."

 

Yeah, that made me cringe too. Apparently some scammers want to put a spin on their auctions now. "You work hard, you deserve to be ripped off by a sleazebucket who's learnt a bit of sugar-coated advertising speak."

these guys say you have to be on a pre-approved bidders list but they never ad anyone to the list!

 

All they do is collect emails to say you can buy it for a set price but never let you bid

 

at least E-bay pulled it yet again - when will this specific scam ever die???

[Henson-migration]

I'm a newbie in the big world of eBay selling (just a few things so far) but I did pick up on a potential scam. Here is one of my first eBay auctions:

 

eBay Auction

 

I spent way too much time on the auction design, but I felt it was pretty clear that I do accept PayPal. Not long after the auction started, I got an email through eBay's Question for Seller service that said basically "Hi, I'm interested in your auction - do you accept PayPal?". I replied that I do - but the reply was from my own email account and not through eBay's service. Soon after that I started getting tons of junk mail. I've always kept my email address off everything to keep from getting spam mail.

 

So... I think the "question for buyer" email was a setup to get my reply and email address. I think there's probably someone out there who created a program to scan all auctions and create a "question for buyer" with a generic "do you accept PayPal" question that most sellers would answer.