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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: witney44 on August 31, 2007, 11:53:38 am

Title: Messerschmitt Kr200
Post by: witney44 on August 31, 2007, 11:53:38 am
Messerschmitt Kr200 Bubblecar / Microcar 1964 Item number: 190147381530 on ebay for a price of £3500!
I think this was on a week ago by a different seller. Must be a scam. Beware!
Title: Re: Messerschmitt Kr200
Post by: Peelpower on August 31, 2007, 01:54:06 pm
Dunno its a scram. The former seller, a couple of weeks ago is a honest seller though. I can maintain it, coz i know him anyway.
No idea who's selling it now, mates!
Title: Re: Messerschmitt Kr200
Post by: blob on August 31, 2007, 05:13:10 pm
Definitely a 'SCAM' didn't Andy Carter sell this to someone in OZ a few weeks back.
Title: Re: Messerschmitt Kr200
Post by: Jim Janecek on August 31, 2007, 06:25:03 pm
yes, it is a scam, the previous listing was here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2192&item=280140328767

you should go to the scam listing and scroll to the bottom to "report this listing"
then choose:
Fraudulant Listings
You suspect a listing is fraud but did not bid
continue

then click the email link and report the item as you see fit, if you can cite the previous listing number:280140328767
eBay will then remove this.
but you have to let them know.  I've done it, the more that report it the sooner it gets noticed
Title: Re: Messerschmitt Kr200
Post by: marcus on August 31, 2007, 08:36:34 pm
not being an ebay user, can someone explain what a scam is and what is going on with this KR, Ta verymuchly!
Title: Re: Messerschmitt Kr200
Post by: Jim Janecek on September 01, 2007, 04:02:47 am
Quote from: marcus on August 31, 2007, 08:36:34 pm
not being an ebay user, can someone explain what a scam is and what is going on with this KR, Ta verymuchly!

The scam is this:
The eBay user listing this item used a stolen credit card to make a false ID on eBay and then stole images from a completed listing.
They then list the item with a fixed price that is usually very very cheap in the hopes that another clueless eBay user will think they are getting a "deal" and then wire them the money.

Other times legitimate eBay user's accounts are compromised or hijacked and used to "sell" items that don't exist.
People fall for this all the time because they think they are getting some great "deal" and their greed gets the best of them and they don't bother to check to see if the item actually exists or if the Seller is "real"
Greed on the part of both Buyer and Seller makes this scam work.