I have bought several powerbooks on ebay from here in the UK. There is a big
scam (certainly with ebay in the UK ) where people list big ticket items
including PowerBooks, and then offer to sell them outside the auction with
lines in the advert like contact me to buy this. Many of these seem to
issue
I've had with ebay Macs has occurred recently - Derbyshire constabulary
took a statement from me about the Powermac which I bought last
November, and examined it took serial numbers. So that one may have a
murky past.
Tom Burke
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:12:07 +0100
Subject: Ebay
Ya see, Ryan? That's two of us now seeing the same thing. So you've had
groovy experiences there. So have I. Doesn't mean crooks aren't all over
the thing.
Why do you think the DOJ is investigating?
on 7/15/03 12:12 AM, Christopher Hack at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have bought several
Well, Ryan, that's four accounts to the negative as well as positive. And I
can report a 1400 I bought out of CA had a past police are interested
in...hard fact. EBAY did nothing. NOTHING. In fact, neither did the
police...
on 7/15/03 3:00 AM, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:50 AM, Illovox Media wrote:
Well, Ryan, that's four accounts to the negative as well as positive.
And I
can report a 1400 I bought out of CA had a past police are interested
in...hard fact. EBAY did nothing. NOTHING. In fact, neither did the
police...
If
3. suggest you will pay in cash and collect the item (again even if you
don't intend to, this will flush out the fraudsters who will immediately say
it is not possible. You can do this even if the item is overseas by saying
something like I will be in your country on a business trip next week
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I contacted ebay fraud office and told them about these scams but they have
done nothing. Best of luck.
Chris
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Recently I got one of those scam e-mails.
Dear sir, i saw that you bidd on Apple iBook 900MHz and i want to offer you the same one for a
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The really sad thing that I did notice
though, was people bidding up the price on auctions so high that they
might as well buy at a retail used/refurbished store. Foolish.
Cheers - Steve K
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Steve:
Some of us live where there are no
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:59, Steve Kidd wrote:
But with all this chatter about how most of the Powerbooks on Ebay are
scams, I decided to take a look for myself. After reviewing more than
100 Powerbook listings, I've found four that were obvious scams.
The real problem are the non obvious
Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
I did find half a dozen or so that seemed suspicious, but as someone
pointed out, requesting escrow is a sure way to weed out someone who
doesn't intend to send you the product.
Many honest sellers do not accept Escrow.
Too bad, those are honest sellers I won't deal
on 7/15/03 8:51 AM, macnifico at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, yes, they do investigate, although they are so swamped with work
that most of the time they are unable to write back.
Investigations swamped with work... That says it all.
R
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