Is Baye full of scammers?

[PRC1964]

For instance, you'll get lots of (phishing) emails from "eBay" telling you that you must ship the item or pay money or whatever. Lots of 'official' threats that your eBay account will be suspended etc. Quite well done it was, only indication that the emails are fake (other than dubious context) is Yahoo domain keys.

Simple rule is: don't sell mobile phones on eBay!

or any easy to shift electronic item. PSP, DS, ipods etc. I know of several people whose kids have tried to sell these and have been inundated with scam emails.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Not full of scammers but no shortage - as for "selling for a friend" "not tested" "please phone for full details" "I am not responsible for items lost in the post" etc, these are just a clue to look elsewhere - they may not be scams but why take the chance. Oh, and the "protection" on offer is largely an illusion in my not very humble opinion - safer to try and buy from/sell to the right people than trying to get someone who isn't that bothered (and operates on a very low staffing and tries to hide their address and phone number) to sort it later

[Bagpuss]

I have assumed he's talking about an SG Studio, no??

The special is a cheaper version of the standard. I've caught many people selling specials as standards. This is just one example of the sort of fraud going on.

[NickFitz]

For instance, you'll get lots of (phishing) emails from "eBay" telling you that you must ship the item or pay money or whatever. Lots of 'official' threats that your eBay account will be suspended etc. Quite well done it was, only indication that the emails are fake (other than dubious context) is Yahoo domain keys.

There's also the fact that genuine email from eBay always has your full name on it, which isn't shown on the site.

IIRC they used to just include your username, but that obviously wouldn't help with spam relating to a listing you'd created, which presumably is why they moved to including the full name.

[threaded]

If you want a decent older guitar, get yourself to Wizard Guitars in Doncaster.

They have a web site, and if you go to the nearby fish'n'chip shop they do a rather good meal (if I do say so myself)

[Grinder]

I have both bought and sold cars on ebay.

Sold for £3000 1966 MG Midget mk2 to a german visitor I collected at Stansted. He drove it home (further than I had driven it all year!). Happy customer.

Bought for £300 1995 Fiesta 1.1 with dented wing. Sold it 2 years later (15000 miles) for £250. Cheapest motoring ever. Never even had it serviced - just topped up the oil every 2 weeks.

108 successful ebay transactions out of 109. I got scammed by a guy in Australia for a programmable ECU for my car. He actually sent an old 20GB hard drive. I got £100 (of about £250) back from ebay buyer protection but it took about a year from the auction date. Looking back - I didn't pay attention to his feedback - I just thought it was a great price and thought it looked genuine.