Reply to: Is Baye full of scammers?

[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.

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[swamp]

How does that one work???

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!

[cojak]

.... but try and sell a £30 mobile phone and you'll have half of Nigeria telling you that you owe them money.

How does that one work???

[swamp]

eBay is a very mixed bag. Some bargains, some things you won't get anywhere else, lots of total rubbish, and of course plenty of scams and rip-offs of every conceivable type.

As I rule, these days I would only use it to buy and sell low value items, like around £50. Also think about demographic and the item. Buying a £300 baby buggy is probably safe, but try and sell a £30 mobile phone and you'll have half of Nigeria telling you that you owe them money.

[tino]

call me silly but if anyone wants to flog me an sg standard for the price of a special, i'm yer man!

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

[scotspine]

call me silly but if anyone wants to flog me an sg standard for the price of a special, i'm yer man!

[Menelaus]

Seems to me it's just a place for criminals and scammers.

Yes.

HTH

[tino]

If someone buy's an SG Studio for the same price as a Standard they deserve all they get.

In fact, anyone buying a guitar off of e-bay (or without even playing it first) deserves all they get.

[VectraMan]

1/ Numerous Cat D (written of and rebuilt) cars.

Cat D doesn't mean rebuilt. It can mean quite minor damage.

If you wanted to scam somebody, it'd be far easy to just nick a photo from somebody else's advert for a car you don't have, than to go to all the trouble of fixing that wrecked Passat with by welding it together with bits from an old Cortina (as is the public perception of CatC/CatD cars).

[pzz76077]

Got dyslexic with my typing all of a sudden

Seems to me it's just a place for criminals and scammers.


1/ Numerous Cat D (written of and rebuilt) cars.

2/ Misdescribed items e.g people selling Gibson SG specials as SG standards (one costs several hundred more than the other)

3/ People selling stuff for 'a friend'

4/ Ticket touts

I guess that its the bottom end of the market - would you buy a car etc from someone you have never met and would not be able to track down if something went wrong?? Me neither....

PZZ