[CGUYS] Ebay Scams..how do they do that?

[gerald]

I do not understand how the listing part of the scam works.

An item is offered for BUY IT NOW price of say $5000.  item trades at say 
$7-8000.  item is sitting at bid price of couple hundred dollars.  not many 
bidders.

the seller seems completely legal.  has 98-100% favorable rating, 100-200 
responses to generate listing.  responses exist.  prior items sold exist.

if one bids say $1000, the bid disappears after a short time, and the couple 
hundred dollar bid reappears.

how do they hack the website to do that.
i have found these guys on golf carts, ATV's, heavy equipment, high end stereo 
and the like

Ebay does find them, and does delete them, but usually not for 3 or 4 days.

no parsimonious lectures on not buying on ebay, or one gets what one pays for, 
etc, please.  i have purchased thousands of items on ebay, and was last burned 
in 2000 or 2002.

regards

jer



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Re: [CGUYS] Ebay Scams..how do they do that?

[Tom Piwowar]

no parsimonious lectures on not buying on ebay, or one gets what one pays 
for, etc, please.  i have purchased thousands of items on ebay, and was 
last burned in 2000 or 2002.

Sellers can reject bids. This is supposed to protect the seller from 
buyers with poor ratings. This may be what they are doing. Not a hack. 
Did you email the seller to ask what happened? I once had a seller do 
that to me by accident. We reconnected and I now own a very nice iBook.


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