Ed sed,
I've only ever bought 1 thing on ebay and it was in lousy shape so I'm
skittery about it...- it's such a pain to return things
I have bought many things on ebay and never been disappointed. (Got
shilled once, so enjoyed letting her keep it!)
The good sellers jealously guard
Oh, I don't know--I'd say be very cautious about using eBay.
It's so damn addicting--and you can find so many great non-computer
items too, that it's hard to keep to any monthly budget you might set
up for yourself. Let's see--there was the telephone stuff, the pizza
stone and peel (well, that
On 7 Oct 2005, at 2:38 AM, Stuart Saunders wrote:
Ed sed,
I've only ever bought 1 thing on ebay and it was in lousy shape so
I'm
skittery about it...- it's such a pain to return things
I've gotten more good deals than bad ones on ebay.
There are plenty of scams on
LOL, having now read through this thread from its start I've noticed
no-one here has offered up an explanation of how this (obvious) scam
actually works.
Can it be no lister has popped for one of these 'deals'??
Or is it possibly the case that any lister niave enough to have popped
for one is
On Feb 27, 2004, at 1:54 PM, Dan K wrote:
LOL, having now read through this thread from its start I've noticed
no-one here has offered up an explanation of how this (obvious) scam
actually works.
Can it be no lister has popped for one of these 'deals'??
Last year there was a lister who lost $1200
I have also been following this thread. since it has now been brought
back up, this is how I 'believe' it goes:
You pay for a *spot in a pyramid type scheme. You get access to what
they call ebooks. You try to get as many people as possible to go to
the site and also buy into the pyramid
Hmm, on 2/24/04, clearly thinking quite astutely about Ebay G5 query,
simon goslin, penned:
Has anyone seen this advert on ebay?
Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz for only $235
This is the link in question...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2789998233category=51036
Appartently
I have heard that it is a pyramid scam of some sort...
M
On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 12:51 AM, simon goslin wrote:
Howdy!
Has anyone seen this advert on ebay?
Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz for only $235
This is the link in question...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/
There was a similar ad that ran in Mac Addict last year..in the summer
for about 2 months or more IIRC...There was a lot of discussion about it
back then...I think it turned out to be a pyramid scam...Haven't heard
or seen anything more about it since.
Regards,
Mike K
Michael Shaw wrote:
I
On 2/24/04 5:09 AM, kochkodin kochkodin@verizon.net wrote:
There was a similar ad that ran in Mac Addict last year..in the summer
for about 2 months or more IIRC...There was a lot of discussion about it
back then...I think it turned out to be a pyramid scam...Haven't heard
or seen anything
Just checked the site...It must be posted from Australia because the
person indicates the AU $$$ cost...Also, it's just for email info and
the auction ends today...only up for 1 day.
Mike K
Andrew wrote:
On 2/24/04 5:09 AM, kochkodin kochkodin@verizon.net wrote:
There was a similar ad that
There was a similar auction running here (US) on ebay for then the
latest G4 towers. If you one (and I think everyone who bid probably was
contacted by seller and given the info if you paid) you received the
email instructions to get a low cost, new G4.
One thing that was a red flag, they only
I'm glad this topic came up. I have a bridge for sale
There was a similar ad that ran in Mac Addict last year..in the
summer for about 2 months or more IIRC...There was a lot of
discussion about it back then...I think it turned out to be a
pyramid scam...Haven't heard or seen anything
On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 12:51 AM, simon goslin wrote:
Howdy!
Has anyone seen this advert on ebay?
Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz for only $235
This is the link in question...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/
eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2789998233category=51036
Appartently if your bid is
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:51:58 +1100
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howdy!
Has anyone seen this advert on ebay?
Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz for only $235
This is the link in question...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2789998233category=51036
Joaquim Carvalho on 7/22/03 5:48 AM wrote:
Last week I tried to find some honest Powerbook deals on Ebay.
Among tens of fake 1GHz 15 and 17 there were a couple of 667MHz 15
from people that accepted direct collect or Escrow. I made a few bids.
The prices ended up close to the price I can get
Is there some way to forward details of a suspect auction to eBay officials?
I have tried looking repeatedly. I have tried sending an email to their
fraud investigators. As far as I can see it, the truth is they do not want
to know. If they do want to know, they should set up a very simple way of
Christopher Hack on 7/28/03 4:40 PM wrote:
Is there some way to forward details of a suspect auction to eBay officials?
I have tried looking repeatedly. I have tried sending an email to their
fraud investigators. As far as I can see it, the truth is they do not want
to know. If they do want
--- Christopher Hack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there some way to forward details of a suspect
auction to eBay officials?
I have tried looking repeatedly. I have tried
sending an email to their
fraud investigators. As far as I can see it, the
truth is they do not want
to know. If they do
on 7/22/03 3:48 AM, Joaquim Carvalho at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last week I tried to find some honest Powerbook deals on Ebay.
Among tens of fake 1GHz 15 and 17 there were a couple of 667MHz 15
from people that accepted direct collect or Escrow. I made a few bids.
The prices ended up close
What is this TYS thing?
Mike K
Illovox Media wrote
TYS...:(
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On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 05:48 AM, Joaquim
Carvalho wrote:
snip
I now am receiving so many
Powerbook scam emails I can't count them.
Joaquim
snip
Are you thinking that the scammers are getting your
email address through E-Bay?
Are you using an email address as an e-bay user
Anyone can send anyone email on ebay through the ebay proxy
on 7/23/03 12:08 PM, Doug Behr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 05:48 AM, Joaquim
Carvalho wrote:
snip
I now am receiving so many
Powerbook scam emails I can't count them.
Joaquim
snip
Are you
Doug Behr wrote:
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 05:48 AM, Joaquim
Carvalho wrote:
snip
I now am receiving so many
Powerbook scam emails I can't count them.
Joaquim
snip
Are you thinking that the scammers are getting your
email address through E-Bay?
Are you using an email address
jdc wrote:
Doug Behr wrote:
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 05:48 AM, Joaquim
Carvalho wrote:
snip
I now am receiving so many
Powerbook scam emails I can't count them.
Joaquim
snip
Are you thinking that the scammers are getting your
email address through E-Bay?
Are
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:02:27AM -0700, Illovox Media wrote:
:
: on 7/22/03 3:48 AM, Joaquim Carvalho at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: Last week I tried to find some honest Powerbook deals on Ebay.
: Among tens of fake 1GHz 15 and 17 there were a couple of 667MHz 15
: from people that
on 7/23/03 3:13 PM, Eugene Lee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: TYS...:(
TYS ? Teach Your Self ?
Ah, the game's afoot!
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: TYS...:(
TYS ? Teach Your Self ?
Ah, the game's afoot!
Try told you so.
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Isn't this tempting?
Joaquim
But this is not PowerBook-specific. I was bidding on a CNC lathe, I
lost it, I got offers of the same kind. I was bidding on a pallet-load
of untested PC laptops, I lost it, I got offers of the same kind. It's
a general-purpose scam, they probably search for
I would never expect to find a legitimate recent model powerbook on
eBay. Nobody except the oddball Power Sellers and scammers are going
to have these offered. Look at Small Dog or the Apple store for
refurbs if you want to save some money on recent models, and
It depends what you mean by
Lewin Edwards wrote:
It depends what you mean by legitimate. Apple has, or had, pretty good
employee discount programs, and it probably still has good educational
discounts.
.edu discounts at Apple haven't been really big for years. Their pattern
seems to be $50 off the lowest systems, like
.edu discounts at Apple haven't been really big for years. Their
pattern seems to be $50 off the lowest systems, like low end ibooks
and iMacs, $150 off the very top end, and $100 off everything else.
Hmm, pretty stingy.
I don't know about Apple, but I've rarely seen employee discounts
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I don't know about Apple, but I've rarely seen employee discounts
amounting to more than 10%.
I can see items like this making their way onto ebay cheaply-ish. Not
exactly illegal, not gray-marketed in the traditional sense of the
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 04:46 AM, jdc wrote:
Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
most Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do
anything about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2
In that case, Sir: REPORT IT TO EBAY. IF (and I know this won't happen)
they refuse to do anything about your complaints then come here. But
you never said that you have reported it to them. Or the BBB. Do those
things first please.
--
Ryan Coleman
eBay seller for 4.5 years
On Tuesday, July
Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a Lombard
on eBay. While still awaiting
Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 08:45 AM, G-Books wrote:
I would have to agree with Chris. I reported the 'Buy Information...'
items to ebay UK, and they didn't seem to be too bothered. Although I
would concede that in those cases, the item description is strictly
correct and no ostensible fraud
on 7/14/03 11:08 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In that case, Sir: REPORT IT TO EBAY. IF (and I know this won't happen)
they refuse to do anything about your complaints then come here. But
you never said that you have reported it to them. Or the BBB. Do those
things first
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
on 7/15/03 1:48 AM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a Lombard
on eBay.
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:25, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money.
The same thing also happened to me twice.
Joaquim
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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
Ryan...5
on 7/15/03 3:25 AM, Michel Treisman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money. Am I responsible for not knowing how things
worked, or the website for not warning me?
6 people scammed...
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Illovox Media wrote:
Ryan...5
Got my Pismo on ebay 2 years ago this week...Fantastic Deal...BUT I was
lucky enough to be able to pick it up and pay in personThe seller lived
about 200 miles east of me but was about 20 minutes away from my son's
apt...Drove down, picked it up and made a
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:49, Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:25, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money.
The same thing also happened to me twice.
Joaquim
I
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:10, K. wrote:
I would rather buy from
the LEM Swap list and have done so a few times, with much better results..
What is the LEM Swap list?
Anyone knows of a good web place/mailing list to sell and buy used
Powerbooks (preferably in Europe)
Joaquim
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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
on 15/07/03 08:32, Joaquim Carvalho at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:10, K. wrote:
I would rather buy from
the LEM Swap list and have done so a few times, with much better results..
What is the LEM Swap list?
Anyone knows of a good web place/mailing list to sell and buy
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:25 AM, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money. Am I responsible for not knowing how things
worked, or the website for not warning me?
I know it sounds
on 15/07/03 13:32, Joaquim Carvalho at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone knows of a good web place/mailing list to sell and buy used
Powerbooks (preferably in Europe)
Macads ?
I buy and sell Powerbooks but not in volume.
Best wishes
Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic
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
Put me in on the positive side for eBay.
In several thousand transactions now as seller and buyer, my wife and I
have had no seller frauds and about 5-10% non-paying bidders. (That doesn't
wind up being a big problem - eBay will pay back selling fees they charged
if the buyer defaults, and if
on 7/15/03 11:17 AM, David Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can echo the same experience with dozens of happy purchases and sales
of fairly major technology items.
The important thing is the obvious one: in 99% of cases if the deal
sounds too good to be true, it is. To counter that I
Whenever I purchase an expensive item on Ebay I ask if I can use a postal
money order. If they refuse to take it, I take my purchase elsewhere.
If you pay with a postal money order and get scammed, it becomes a federal
offense and the United States Postal Inspection Service then becomes
involved.
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 03:42 am, Illovox Media wrote:
Man are you presumptuous. I have, and they do nothing. Did nothing when
even my EBAY ID was hijacked. Had to find their telephone number (try that
Mr. Know It All) and finally with enough yelling they did something about
that. IE,
==0
I contacted ebay fraud office and told them about these scams but they have
done nothing. Best of luck.
Chris
==0
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
==0
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
===0
Steve:
Some of us live where there are no
days if it's Fedex or UPS. S people who say no foreign bids or no
shipping to Canada are really shooting themselves in the foot...excluding
I almost always specify US bidders only but I almost always make an
exception if a Canadian bidder asks me to. I almost never allow Western
European
No one should expect Ebay to make a market in goods where
robust markets already exist. In the case of current models,
However it provides a convenient portal for small businesses. In that
sense it is making an online market for small vendors who would
otherwise only have their bricks'n'mortar
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 09:13 AM, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
The reason I dislike Canadian sales is the extra paperwork. I don't
even
know how to generate the right paperwork to send things UPS, so I
always
have to use USPS to send these items.
Hopefully you shouldn't have to fill out
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
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:17, David Taylor wrote:
The only other significant thing that I have learned is not to sell to
anyone outside the USA.
Is this list US specific?
Joaquim
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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:13, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
days if it's Fedex or UPS. S people who say no foreign bids or no
shipping to Canada are really shooting themselves in the foot...excluding
I almost always specify US bidders only but I almost always make an
exception if a
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
Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods and lost all my money. Am I
responsible for not knowing how things worked, or the website
for not warning me?
then Steve Kidd wrote:
I know it sounds cruel, but to a
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:31, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
exception if a Canadian bidder asks me to. I almost never allow Western
European bidders, and I never allow Far East destinations. For a few
What is the reason you don't sell to Europe?
Long distance,
Distance doesn't really
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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expensive shipping (meaning it's really expensive for me
Not much more expensive than in-Europe shipping.
What difference does that make to me? I'm in the United States. Intra-US
shipping is cheap and, by and large, reliable. USPS is inexpensive, VERY
reliable and has never damaged or lost
on 7/15/03 10:16 AM, Tom Meade at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No one should expect Ebay to make a market in goods where
robust markets already exist. In the case of current models,
web and brick retailers do that. What common sense support
can there be to expect a significant discount from the
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 11:12 AM, G-Books wrote:
Whenever I purchase an expensive item on Ebay I ask if I can use a
postal
money order. If they refuse to take it, I take my purchase elsewhere.
If you pay with a postal money order and get scammed, it becomes a
federal
offense and the
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:11 PM, Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
extra expense and hassle in collecting money, ...
Paypal couldn't be simpler.
Western Union is also a good choice, if sender and receiver know and
trust each other.
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Do not
on 7/14/03 2:36 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
How do you know most are scams? I'm really interested in this because I've
On 14/07/03 17:36, jdc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
I purchased my Pismo through eBay. I chose an escrow service and everything
went smoothly.
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
How do you know most are scams? I'm really interested in this because
I think he's trolling. Over the past 3-4 years I have bought at least
sixty laptops on ebay (three or four of which were PowerBooks), three
iPods,
on 7/14/03 2:36 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
I have. It's true. Tons of stolen merchandise, or no merchandise at all,
He isn't trolling.
There have been several accounts by various people including different
Mac websites about there being PowerBook auction scams. Mainly the
conversation consists of why are so many scams for PowerBooks?
followed by a bunch of guessing.
In reality there don't seem to be that
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From: jdc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ebay
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Joaquim
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I have bought and
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 04:36 PM, jdc wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
most Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do
anything about this?
actually... it seems that most of the PowerBook scams i've seen have
been ebayers scamming
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a Lombard
on eBay. While still awaiting the Lombard's arrival,
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Dan K wrote:
Joaquim wrote:
Has anyone tried to buy a Powerbook on Ebay? Have you notices that
most
Powerbook sales are scams? Why doesn't Ebay or the police do anything
about this?
Most PowerBook sales are scams? I bought recently 2 Pismos and a
Lombard
on 7/14/03 9:40 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What he is referring to is the fact that most powerbook titled auctions
are actually for 'information' on how to get free or cheap stuff from
the government and other businesses. Yes it is false advertising but it
is in no way a
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