Ebay scam alert. Beware!

[Point Five]

Some of you may have seen the beautiful one-owner golden age comics being auctioned off by ebay seller godiva1218 over the last few weeks. A bunch of us were discussing the Superman #15 in General recently, and she has tons of other GA auctions going on right now.

 

I was the underbidder on her Superman #3 last week, and just received a Second Chance offer which appeared to be from her. This offer came to my ebay account and was in my ebay My Messages folder, like all legit offers should be, but I was more than a bit suspicious by the wording & particulars of the offer. I contacted the seller by asking a question through a current auction of hers, and she responded right away:

 

I was the victim of an account takeover by a third party and they added second chance offers....I have worked with ebay to rectify the situation..sorry for any issues...

 

So there you have it. Do not respond to any second chance offers that appear to be from this seller...they are scams.

 

Jon

[G.A.tor]

hello all...

I got them as well, asking to email a different addy directly, etc...

too good to be true, I guess

rick

[Forbush-Man]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

They had three Catman's I was watching, I've deleted them from my ebay watch list.

 

[Point Five]

You got it...happy to spread the word.

 

The bogus offer was directing me to an aol email...and the real seller responded to my ebay question right away, so it would seem she is now in control of her account. As long as you use a reasonable amount of caution, it's probably OK to bid on the new auctions? You're right though, not ideal. Your call I guess.

[Forbush-Man]

You got it...happy to spread the word.

 

The bogus offer was directing me to an aol email...and the real seller responded to my ebay question right away, so it would seem she is now in control of her account. As long as you use a reasonable amount of caution, it's probably OK to bid on the new auctions? You're right though, not ideal. Your call I guess.

 

 

Think I'll pass for now......better safe than sorry.

[Point Five]

Hard to argue.

[mr.schomburg]

Some of you may have seen the beautiful one-owner golden age comics being auctioned off by ebay seller godiva1218 over the last few weeks. A bunch of us were discussing the Superman #15 in General recently, and she has tons of other GA auctions going on right now.

 

I was the underbidder on her Superman #3 last week, and just received a Second Chance offer which appeared to be from her. This offer came to my ebay account and was in my ebay My Messages folder, like all legit offers should be, but I was more than a bit suspicious by the wording & particulars of the offer. I contacted the seller by asking a question through a current auction of hers, and she responded right away:

 

I was the victim of an account takeover by a third party and they added second chance offers....I have worked with ebay to rectify the situation..sorry for any issues...

 

So there you have it. Do not respond to any second chance offers that appear to be from this seller...they are scams.

 

Jon

 

I don't know about second chance offers, but this seller was ok for my one transaction. It came in mail today, I posted on timely thread. The only issue I had was he/she didn't add insurance to package even though I selected the 12.00 option. Fortunately it came fine and well packed...so no issue. They did refund the 12.00, so they made it right.

[innocuous]

Thanks for the heads up. I was watching a couple of books that were expensive (for me). Now, I think I'll pass, better to be safe than out $3000.

[1koko]

Guys,

 

before deleting the items from your watch list you should contact the seller.

 

It seems that the auctions are legit but the 2nd chance offers fake.

 

Seems the seller is being penalised twice for account hijacking.

 

Maybe e-bay can confirm that the auctions are real?

 

For once they may do something as they will lose out on fees otehrwise.