on 14/7/03 14:33, Clive Bubley wrote:

> I then e-mailed again, this time asking where the camera would be
> shipped from, thinking that if it was from London I could check it
> out before parting with any money.
> 
> Her reply was that she was in Sofia, Bulgaria. She said that she and
> her partner had funded the purchase of the goods from a store that
> had gone bankrupt and were trying to sell off the remaining items,
> which included amongst a bunch of cheap tools, a few digital slr
> cameras, including the D10, a Nikon D1H and a Fuji S2.


Beware - this is new version of Nigerian "millions in foriegn bank account
scam".

I have been selling a Kodak D760 via e-Bay and got very interested in the
prices of Kodak 14ns - going for as little at �1200 "buy now" prices.

In two of the cases I got identical replies to Clive, one from Spain and
another from Manila and a third from [ allegedly ] Hong Kong actually was
based on an e-mail hosting site in the UK. They all wanted money transfers
at which point I  quit the game. Having watched my own item selling price
for 10 days I became very concious that there are some peculiar offers being
made. 

So if you are tempted then be very, very wary. Have been speaking with an
experienced selller on e-Bay and he says that there are lots of scams and
dodgy deals being offered out there - positive feedback comments are no
guarantee as all you need to do is register yourself with e-bay and then you
can then post positive comments for a selling name. A bit like the problems
that radio / TV shows get on phone-in voting

E-Bay can work very nicely but you have to be very careful.
Cheers

Mike St Maur Sheil

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