Warning BUYERS on Ebay!!!

[Groovy Coovy]

I used my friends email address to ask one of the above auctions a question.... speaks for itself!!!


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Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 8:45:00 AM, you wrote:

bac> Wow! COOL GUITAR! How does it play? Is it brand new, or just slightly used? Does it come with a case and accesories? Can you end the bidding early? How much were you hoping to get for it?
bac> Where are you located?
bac> Peace!
bac> --------------------


Hello dear buyer,
Its play good for sure, really good thing. Never been used before. It
has a factory case. We can end it for Buy It Now. Give us a good
offer and we will. We are in Illinois state.


Best regards,
Olga
Sale Manager
** Thank you for taking an interesting in our products we are listed on eBay. We look forward to helping each and everyone of our buyers. Feel free to ask us any questions! **


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Best regards,
scottbro mailto:scottbro@mail15.com

[Anton]

Damn man , these kind of things put me off ebay

[john1880]

Hi,
I would just like to thank Groovy Coovy and Rich Harris. If it wasn't for you guys, I would be $486 poorer today, and another guy would be out $330.
I contacted ebay, and they have removed the scammer's(Olga) account that she had been using for my auction, and are looking into the matter.
Thanks again, and Groovy Coovy please keep us posted on your case.

john1880

[bob mclaughlin]

Here's one for ya, A couple months ago I bid a Ace frehley Coustom LP and was outbid at the last second, Well a few minutes later I recieved an e-mail saying that he would sell it to me instead for a few hundred less. Get this!! "Send bank wire to BURMUDA"!!!! This was NOT the guy that sold the LP but a SCAMMER that stold his e-bay name just like you guys are talking about.. Be carefull and ask ALOT of questions and don't give out ANY info to nobody......

p.s. NO I did not send money to Burmuda......

[BillK62]

Hi all,
Just saw this on Ebay,
Same pics from Ibanez rules!! site.
Item number: 2374758643

[MadRyan]

Post a link... That's an invalid number. (according to Ebay) May be one of the fake sites that look like ebay but aren't.

[jelyfinger]

This hacking of existing members accounts to defraud a buyer using the credibility of the members standing/feedback is definitely going on! This week there was a JEM 7VWH on *bay with a 24 hr. auction(the red flag!), the single pic was from ibanez website of the guitar(not an actual picture..another red flag). Bidding was going like wildfire when after 10 hrs. the item was ended and all bids were cancelled stating a listing error. I emailed the member and ask if he was going to relist and he responded back to me:

"I did not list this item, whom ever did, did so fraudulently, thus I
termanated the auction. The guy was about to take your money and leave me
with the tab. If you want the item his Ip address is 64.12.96.235 and the
ISP host:cache-mtc-a106.proxy.aol.com" ,
----- Original Message -----
From: <jelyfinger@aol.com>
To: <srcastle@rcn.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:48 PM
Subject: Question from eBay Member

WATCH OUT EVERYONE! This just happened!