eBay - LAC/NAC

[Mike LaRosa]

the latest scam i got bit on....


i had a truck for sale.. reserve was 19,000...

some guy bid 168,000  then when it showed my reserve
publicly he retracted his bid.

at first i thought he just typoed 16,800 and had too
many zero's...  it was the e-mail a few moments later
saying if i lowered my reserve to 17,000 he would buy
it right know...  that told me he was a sack of
excrement....

ebay did nothing about this when i told them...

Mike,



--- Jim Jordan <capnkidd at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Don't be so trusting of the sellers on eBay with
> high feedback numbers;
> some of them, maybe many, salt those numbers
> liberally and eBay has little
> way to stop it.  Moreover, there are some bidding
> schemes that are patently
> unfair to the uninitiated.  I don't consider myself
> to be "initiated".
> 
> A selling forum like eBay is just too full of
> opportunity for crooks.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Jim Jordan 
> 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Max Wellhouse [mailto:maxjoyce at ipa.net] 
> >  Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:35 PM
> >  To: Mike LaRosa; cobram at juno.com;
> iceisit at earthlink.net
> >  Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> >  Subject: Re: Fwd: For Sale '89 Audi
> >  
> >  I got jacked around on a $700 kayak sale via ebay
> with a 
> >  similar Modus Operandae.  they sent me a $700
> money order 
> >  that really looked legit.  I deposited and waited
> for them 
> >  to come get the boat.  They never did.  After
> spending the 
> >  $700, a month later the bank calls with the bad
> news, it's a 
> >  forgery.  It's the typical Western Union tap
> dance and the 
> >  post office said the reason they get away with
> the forgery 
> >  is that the bogus routing numbers on the Postal
> MO keep the 
> >  check floating in the system since it has no
> where to go.  I 
> >  was out a total of  $12 for a Western Union fee
> and that was 
> >  enough of a lesson.
> >  
> >  Lady from Chicago bought the boat on a subsequent
> auction
> >     Live and learn.
> >  
> >  3 and 4 digit ebay feedback folks are inherently
> more 
> >  trustworthy, IMHO.
> >  
> >  DM&FS
> >  
> >  At 08:41 PM 9/14/2005, Mike LaRosa wrote:
> >  >all the time fay, usually they are from nigeria
> though....
> >  >
> >  >some prince wanting to give me money... somehow
> the checks 
> >  always seem 
> >  >to get lost in the mail...  :)
> >  >
> >  >Mike,
> >  >
> >  >--- cobram at juno.com wrote:
> >  >
> >  > >  "Cat     ^. .^   ~" <iceisit at earthlink.net>
> writes:
> >  > >
> >  > > > Any body else on the list get
> correspondence like
> >  > > this ???
> >  > >
> >  > > Only about 10 times a day.  The "Lads from
> Lagos"
> >  > > are prolific if nothing
> >  > > else.
> >  > >
> >  > > BCNU,
> >  > > http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> >  > > We'll be spontaneous when we have time.
> >  > >
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