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Message |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 8:36 pm: | |
Here's a nice looking AR305.
Ebay Item #230100779488 |
Jeffsailor
Username: Jeffsailor
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 9:27 pm: | |
John,
That auction has been pulled several times by eBay. It always shows up as a single day auction, but never lasts the full day.
There's something not quite right about the auction. The seller is in Germany with a Google email account and claims the guitar will ship from Japan.
js |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 9:34 pm: | |
Hmmm. Thanks for the heads up.
Love that 2622CW!  |
Jeffsailor
Username: Jeffsailor
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 9:38 pm: | |
Ebay Item #330095560704
Here's another listing for the same guitar. |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 11:38 pm: | |
Oops, they are both gone! |
Bondscoll
Username: Bondscoll
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 10:40 pm: | |
This guitar is listed several times tonight. Something is really fishy on this one. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft pole.
Rick |
Tigerstripe
Username: Tigerstripe
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 1:14 am: | |
it was pulled again just now as i was emailing the guy...I noticed he does 1 day auctions on hi dollar items-thats always a sign of scammer.This is a hijacked account.STAY AWAY-big time fraud!! |
Tigerstripe
Username: Tigerstripe
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 1:19 am: | |
here is his reply to my email asking about his ar 305-have a good laff!!
"Dear sir,
Please let me know how much can you offer me for the item right now and I will sell it to you.All the deal will be done safe and legal through eBay under their protection.Don't worry because I will support all the shipping fees.
Thank you! " |
Tristan
Username: Tristan
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 11:09 am: | |
There are several scammers on ebay.
Normally they take very nice photos of vintage Ibanez guitars or the likes and write something down like "Do not bid on that auction, it's only a BIN auction, if you want to use BIN please email me",
normally when you'll email such a seller he will ask you how much you can pay and ask you to make a bank transfer, no PayPal because he got divorced from his wife, etc.
Then after he has your mail, you'll get fake emails from him, which look a bit similar to a genuine email from ebay, asking you to precede with the seller.
Anyways, always contact ebay members only through the ask seller a question.
Try to stay away from revealing your mail address.
There are not too many frauds. The best thing is to never think like what you see is your only once in a lifetime chance. |
Gemberbier
Username: Gemberbier
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 5:20 pm: | |
What eBay identity/ identities has he used so far?
Ginger |
Tigerstripe
Username: Tigerstripe
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 6:55 pm: | |
he hijacked the acct...I am jerking him around now.I emailed him back saying that i would give him 3000$ and that i want it so bad!!!!He emailed me back asking for my personal info etc...So i think thats the end of our exchange.There are so many scams on ebay.As a seller iw ont be using paypal ever again on items over 200$ because many buyers now can and do chargebacks claiming they didnt get item or its not as described.Paypal doesnt care what the buyers excuse is for not wanting the item they automatically get refunded when paypal gets the tracking number/proof of return delivery.As a buyer using paypal is bulletproof garanty.Regardless of sellers return policy.I had a buyer return something 14 days after he bought it.I couldnt do anything about it.Paypal jus refunded him the money.I lost shipping fees,ebay fees and a sale. |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 8:12 am: | |
Guys:
Thanks for the good info on trying to keep from getting beat by these scammers. |
Tigerstripe
Username: Tigerstripe
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 7:26 pm: | |
i beleive he hijacked this account: "vintageantiques"...but i am not sure...He wanted to do everything outside ebay or direct me to a spoofed ebay page.You should know that it takes about 2 seconds to copy an ebay page from "view source" with right click and then pasting the code into dreamweaver or other html editor and then uploading that page to your bogus website/host.There s a guy selling his uncles artist on ebay right now-new account-his wording scares me a little.Maybe im just getting 2 paranoid.If your a buyer always buy with credit card funded paypal account so you can get your money back if scammed.If youre a seller never accept paypal on items over 200$.Thats how im playing it these days. |
Gemberbier
Username: Gemberbier
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 9:52 pm: | |
Which one of these is it?
The one from Florida, who's a member for 7 years and never sold one item through eBay?
http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/MemberSearchResul t?userid=vintageantiques
Shouldn't be so hard to find out if he's been pulling back his auctions all the time. He could be doing this for 7 years...
Ginger |
Tigerstripe
Username: Tigerstripe
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 11:54 pm: | |
not him..i guess i got names mixed.I remeber the account had 322 feedbaks.By the time i sent him email his listing had been pulled and ebay wiped out all messages in my inbox from the scammer...his email was: mikedavid99@gmail |
Tristan
Username: Tristan
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 8:23 am: | |
There are couple of guys doing those scams, not just one.
It's just random account hijacking, most of the time not the same seller.
I saw it recently going for a satch model, an LP, basically they just try to show that you have the chance of a lifetime. |
Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 11:26 am: | |
Watch out - it's back! Stay away!
Ebay Item #230103249098
mk |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 12:30 pm: | |
Pulled already. |
Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 5:08 pm: | |
Again...different seller id:
Ebay Item #200088717935
mk |
Fox
Username: Fox
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 7:26 pm: | |
And again pulled... What is goinŽon here??? |
Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 4:52 pm: | |
I think the same person is at it again, this time with an Artist bass. It's been listed several times, just like the AR:
Ebay Item #200089115965
mk |
Johns
Username: Johns
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 9:47 am: | |
MK:
Yup, pulled. At least eBay is doing something proactive. |