Scam eBay seller.
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This eBay seller has loads of listings.
I doubt very much they have a vast stick of classic cars they can’t be bothered to describe.
Always poorly described.
Almost certainly a scam of some sort.
I don’t get how the scam works though.
Presumably he’s hoping someone turns up with £5k in cash to roll them for it?
Does anyone know anymore about this?
I doubt very much they have a vast stick of classic cars they can’t be bothered to describe.
Always poorly described.
Almost certainly a scam of some sort.
I don’t get how the scam works though.
Presumably he’s hoping someone turns up with £5k in cash to roll them for it?
Does anyone know anymore about this?
t? Crack on. 
Stick Legs said:
This eBay seller has loads of listings.
I doubt very much they have a vast stick of classic cars they can’t be bothered to describe.
Always poorly described.
Almost certainly a scam of some sort.
I don’t get how the scam works though.
Presumably he’s hoping someone turns up with £5k in cash to roll them for it?
Does anyone know anymore about this?
Criminal gangs with hundreds of false accounts. They've been operating from eastern Europe for years. I doubt very much they have a vast stick of classic cars they can’t be bothered to describe.
Always poorly described.
Almost certainly a scam of some sort.
I don’t get how the scam works though.
Presumably he’s hoping someone turns up with £5k in cash to roll them for it?
Does anyone know anymore about this?
Just had another look - he's got 42 boats for sale, all ending at about 1900 today - only one picture and description mentioning being sold by a "fella who has resised away" whatever that means!
Worryingly a lot have bids... It's either people taking the piss or who will spend a lot of money on something with one photo and no description...
They definitely are things that have been listed/sold before, I recognise some of them.
FWIW, reported!
Worryingly a lot have bids... It's either people taking the piss or who will spend a lot of money on something with one photo and no description...
They definitely are things that have been listed/sold before, I recognise some of them.
FWIW, reported!
I once had something similar when looking for a road bike. There was an eBay listing for a high spec bike, the price was too good to be true (the price was way below retail price for a bike that looked unused in the photos).
I emailed the seller asking if I can travel down and see the bike in person and then bank transfer the money if I was happy. The seller refused and wanted me to transfer the money without ever seeing the bike.
I didn’t even get back to him and ran away. To this day I’m not convinced the bike even existed and it was just a scam.
I emailed the seller asking if I can travel down and see the bike in person and then bank transfer the money if I was happy. The seller refused and wanted me to transfer the money without ever seeing the bike.
I didn’t even get back to him and ran away. To this day I’m not convinced the bike even existed and it was just a scam.
They use random photos they've grabbed from the internet.
I one spotted one for a 944 for sale in Broseley. I recognised the road, so nipped up and took a photo of the house.
I emailed the seller and he correctly said he was "Telford", so he must have got the photo from an older advert (a Google image search just threw up loads of 944 photos).
I asked him various questions in several emails, including asking if he genuine, which he said he was. when I asked him what colour the garage door was of the house next door, he never replied....
lost in espace said:
Apparently they hack someone's account and spam advert the hell out of it, and someone gets a nice invoice from Ebay.
I'm glad you explained that. I was wondering why the OP's ad had a user account opened 17 years ago with 98%+ positive feedback. That's a lot of advanced planning for a crim. But a hacked account makes sense. I am very naieve in these things!Buyer scam so the other side......
A few years ago I worked in police ops and had a call from a small business owner with an ebay “shop”. Sold an item worth about £1000. There was a slight delay in delivery date so an agreed “ refund” of £200 was given and accepted. The buyer said it was delivered but late. The buyer then went to ebay to claim non delivery. The business seller forwarded all details, including the buyer confirming delivery in a message, courier confirmation of delivery etc.. Result was ebay still sided with the buyer and gave a full £1000 refund despite the £200 discount. Buyer got the item for free!
The seller took it forward as a fraud and won.
ebay didn’t properly look at the evidence that proved fraud. Their attitude was ( still is?) virtually automatic siding with the buyer. The business also pushed ebay by claiming an unauthorised debit from their account when clear fraud had occurred. Not sure of that outcome though.
A few years ago I worked in police ops and had a call from a small business owner with an ebay “shop”. Sold an item worth about £1000. There was a slight delay in delivery date so an agreed “ refund” of £200 was given and accepted. The buyer said it was delivered but late. The buyer then went to ebay to claim non delivery. The business seller forwarded all details, including the buyer confirming delivery in a message, courier confirmation of delivery etc.. Result was ebay still sided with the buyer and gave a full £1000 refund despite the £200 discount. Buyer got the item for free!
The seller took it forward as a fraud and won.
ebay didn’t properly look at the evidence that proved fraud. Their attitude was ( still is?) virtually automatic siding with the buyer. The business also pushed ebay by claiming an unauthorised debit from their account when clear fraud had occurred. Not sure of that outcome though.
These scam sellers keep cropping up every few days.
They usually use the same pictures over and over again, with stupidly low prices, and poorly worded information (as though English is not their first language), and attach the adverts to hijacked, legitimate accounts (which change every few days)
They do get reported as scams, and usually, after a day or so, ebay remove all the adverts.
Sometimes though, frustratingly, for some reason it seems to take ebay several days to remove the adverts.
What's really annoying is, these scam adverts have been going on for years now, and are blindingly obvious scams, but rather than employing a team to look out for them, and stop them immediately, ebay relies on site members reporting them, otherwise they do nothing.
They usually use the same pictures over and over again, with stupidly low prices, and poorly worded information (as though English is not their first language), and attach the adverts to hijacked, legitimate accounts (which change every few days)
They do get reported as scams, and usually, after a day or so, ebay remove all the adverts.
Sometimes though, frustratingly, for some reason it seems to take ebay several days to remove the adverts.
What's really annoying is, these scam adverts have been going on for years now, and are blindingly obvious scams, but rather than employing a team to look out for them, and stop them immediately, ebay relies on site members reporting them, otherwise they do nothing.
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