Just to clarify something...
I sell stuff on Ebay and they do have a feature for selling to the
guy who came in second if you get stiffed by the winner. However, I
have only had to use this feature once in all the stuff I've sold
there. If you get a message like the one below be very wary but don't
discount it entirely. It may be legit.
At 01:36 PM 10/19/2005, you wrote:
Just want to mention a scam I haven't seen before. I bid on an item and
lost. I was contacted via ebay by a member who has 100% feedback over
about 5 years, in this case. The member offered me a second chance on
the item, saying the winner of the bid didn't come through. In this
particular case I had in fact already spoken with the real seller of the
item, and he lives in England. I noticed the other member who contacted
me is in the US, has nothing to do with cameras and asked me to reply to
the one I'd already written to to reach the real seller directly.
However, the whole thing looked quite legitimate as it went through
ebay's mail system. In any event, I sent a generic reply from an email
address that can't be traced to me (can't be too careful) and said "yes,
i'd love to buy the item" without mentioning item number or name. The
scammer in the first instance was interested in obtaining my name,
address, phone number, now asking for the item # and my member ID
(because he must be running this on quite a few people he couldn't know
which one I was from the email). I'll post any more info received.
Meanwhile I think ebay has closed that account.
Anyway, just another warning amidst the many out there.
Gary J Sibio
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