After placing a destined-to-lose bid on an API pre, I got this e-mail:

"Hello, my name is Stephen Budko, I am from Madrid, Spain, and I hope
that I
won't waste your precious time with my offer. I saw that you are
interested in
buying a API 3124+ 4Channel Mic pre and that you also placed a bid for
this
item. I'm contacting you to let you know that i have a 100% identical
item whith
the one you are interested of. If you are interested in closing this
deal with
me I will give you a 100% safe and fast method to close this deal. I
can offer
you this product at a special price of 1000 $, shipping charges
included, only
if you want to close the deal as quickly as possible, cause I'm having
some
financial problems and I need the money very fast. Please contact or
reply me at

To eliminate any kind of problems concerning you trusting me, please
check my
feedback.My user name is: step_b
Please go to http://pages.ebay.com/services/forum...ack-login.html
to see my
ebay record.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you."

I replied:

"Stephen,

The following quote is from the paragraph below:

"eBay does not tolerate spam"

In any event, your price of $1000 the 4-channel API preamp is great -
too great. I understand you're directing me to your eBay profile to
"feel more comfortable", but that doesn't mean anything if the eBay
name is stolen. If you can send me pictures of you holding your API
preamp, give me your address, phone number, and work address and phone
number and then send the unit to me COD - we might be able to start
talking about "closing a deal". Thanks."

Just thought I'd throwout a heads up, seems like a stolen ID thing.