ebay scams

It's a scam. I've communicated (?) with a couple of these idiots - just for sport.

Last one was a 5series, listed as being in St Paul MN, but photographed with palm trees in the background. When I brought that to the intention of the seller - sure enough - the car was actually in Italy, but he would happily ship it upon receipt of $2000. I could pay the rest after receiving the car. Shipping was free because he knew the captain of a container ship.

There are no cars. They copy pics and copy from other auctions. When they offer in an email to sell you a $40K car for $6K, it's fairly obvious that fraud is involved.

DS

I had a 911 for sale on cars.com & a few other spots last year. Some guy took my ads, pictures & description & made an e-bay auction out of it. The Pics he took even had my mailbox with my house number in the background. He had more or less the same story as the other scammers. The car was overseas & he would ship it to the buyer upon receipt of $2000 in shipping fees.

I wonder it a bunch of people could get together & scam the scammer? Run up the bids to $100,000 or so, send fake money orders, etc.

--Mike

up the bids to $100,000 or so, send fake money orders, etc.

Actually, I've seen bids go sky-high on scams before - people just set up ebay accounts, post a ton of bids, then close the accounts later... a better bet though is to report a scam if you see it. I've seen plenty of suspect auctions get deleted after people actually make the effort to report them to eBay.

Chris.