Re: ebay scams continue

[shiloh]

HEY i didnt know about this kinda thing. THANKS for the warning.
Sorry to hear about it,
Shiloh

"playon" <playonATcomcast.net> wrote in message
...
> Some of you maybe remember a few weeks ago I posted on RAP advertising
> a pair of KM84i Neumanns that I put on ebay. I successfully sold the
> mics to a guy in Brooklyn and everyone was happy, I got a good price,
> he got the mics, all is cool.
>
> Unfortunately one of the other lower bidders was scammed out of $1300
> by a guy claiming to be me, who emailed him after the auction saying
> that the high bidder didn't pay up, and offering him another chance at
> the mics. The victim I think was a younger guy, or at least he wasn't
> careful... he should have flagged that (a) the email address was
> different than mine, (b) the mics were listed as in Seattle but the
> scammer was in England (claimed he was travelling), and (c) he
> insisted that payment be only via Western Union wire transfer which is
> totally anonymous (said he couldn't accept paypal, etc). After seeing
> positive feedback posted on the sale of the mics the guy started to
> get the picture that he'd been had... it just goes to show you need to
> be careful to know who you are dealing with.
>
> Al

[Scott Dorsey]

playonATcomcast.net <playonATcomcast.net> wrote:
>Yes, be VERY wary of second chance offer on ebay.

Well, I just had an Ampex 440B-4 up on Ebay... went for a low but not
astoundingly low price to a guy in Italy, in spite of the fact that I
had said that I would not ship outside the US. When he found out how
much postage would really be (and he didn't even find out about teardown
and crating, which is probably another $500 at least), he realized that
this was probably not a good idea.

And, as he was only five bucks over the next lowest bidder, I offered
a second chance.... but no go... probably because he was as suspicious
about the whole thing as I would be.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Kurt Albershardt]

playonATcomcast.net wrote:
> Yes, be VERY wary of second chance offer on ebay.

I just bought a 1940's deco wall phone with a 'second chance' offer that worked out well. I was the highest bidder, but did not meet the reserve price. The seller sent me (through eBay) a 'second chance' offer with a link to a 'buy it now' at the price I bid and all came off nicely.

[Arny Krueger]

<playonATcomcast.net> wrote in message


> Yes, be VERY wary of second chance offer on ebay.

The point was also made that we should beware of the email address of the
guy asking for payment.

I recently sloughed an eBay auction I had won because the seller asked for
payment from two different email addresses. It was a video projector for
about $1K and I didn't want to fool around with that kind of money. The
seller may have been on the level in the final analysis, but he was very
impatient and agressive and at best scared me off.

I paid the address that went with the auction via PayPal, as he requested.
Then, he said that he couldn't get the money out of PayPal and promised to
refund my payment. While I was waiting for the refund to come through to my
bank, he demanded a second payment, NOW!!!

I took the money back when he finally refunded it, and then told him to
buzz off. I got one of those "Three times and you're out" letters from
eBay, but I appealed. They let me off the hook, presumably because I could
prove via PayPal that I had completed the auction once.