"A Muzi" <
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>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2715399935
> "Harris" wrote:
> > Look at the bidder's last two feedbacks.
> Yes, but he seemed to have completed 61 other transactions before that. This whole thing is
> confusing to me.
I've posted something to rec.bicycles.marketplace about this, but it's probably worth posting here
as well so people know what to look out for.
There's a scam currently operating in eBay whereby the details of an item that has previously been
auctioned are stolen and used to create a new auction. This is as simple as performing a 'completed
items' search. Text and images are usually copied verbatim. As well as this Trek, the scammer had,
at time of writing, six other bikes 'for sale' in eBay France, and one in Italy.
http://tinyurl.com/74mt
or if that doesn't work, auction numbers
2715650209 2715625199 2715399935 2715398609 2715626336 2715625643 2715399136 2715882939
The auction currency is always British, but the bikes are said to be located in continental European
cities - Rome, Toulouse, Lyon, Perpignan, and lately Paris. Sellers all have zero or very low
feedback. When they have feedback, it's often from other 'zeros', or for very low cost items - up to
a few dollars.
If you consider 'cyclefreak's feedback, you'll note that he had sixty good transactions before
receiving negative feedback from 'frunzauscata' and 'uliutefute1', both of whom have auctioned items
from 'Paris, France'. 'Frunzauscata' was given positive feedback by 'celmaiizvor', who has zero
feedback, and sells from 'Paris, France'. Of the 14 bids on 'celmaiizvor's auction 2714211849, 12
were from new users with zero feedback ('rojpuppy', 'dgtlmurphy', and our friend 'frunzauscata') -
all of whom, I have little doubt, reside in 'Paris, France'.
'Cyclefreak' appears to have been burnt by our scammer, and in the absence of action from eBay, is
trying to spoil these scam auctions. I wish him/her good luck.
James Thomson
