Ebay scams 101
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:49, Anthony Farr wrote:
> If you look at the sellers profile, you'd see that all feedback comments are
> like:
> "???????**,????,,??". To be fair, it could just be that eBay pages don't
> support oriental characters when they are being referred into occidental
> eBay sites, but it does arouse my suspicion. It was also this ID's first
> sale, all the feedback was gained as a buyer of "worthless junk". In fact,
> if you randomly sample the various IDs connected by feedback to this ID, you
> see a lot of junk changing hands for tiny sums. You will also see quite a
> few "unverified eBay members" amongst the comments.
>
> IMO a very small number of people, perhaps even only one, are setting up
> some ID's to sting gullible "round eyes". If this one ended early it's
> because the price wasn't getting high enough to be worth retiring that ID.
>
> regards,
> Anthony Farr
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Powell Hargrave wrote:
> > > If he gets it.
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7526667604
> >
> > It's gotta be a fraud. My guess is that the seller ended it early
> > before someone figured it out and eBay could yank the auction.
> >
> > Tom Reese
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