Ebay scammers

I'm currently selling a phone for a friend on ebay (Nokia Lumia 800) and got a message from an Ebayer the other day simply asking "Is this item still for sale?" I responded with a simple "Yes, it is still for sale",

And now I get this...

Decided to play along with a dummy email address. Should be fun

Good lord, seriously?

Never tried to sell anything on ebay, maybe one day.

Phones bring out the scammers

Not had a fake paypal reply from this one yet.. Looking forward to it though.

No, it will be WU or moneygram.

No, no, no.. Some are able to create fake ebay websites that you log into (which is why I used a dummy email).

Yeah, I know............. Many times I sent them to spoofpaypal, so that they could get them off the air.

I sold a laptop on Ebay last year, only £150, but the day after I had sent it out, I had an email from Ebay telling me not to send it as the buyer was involved in some fraud. Maybe I was lucky, but I had no problems getting the money through Paypal & it cleared to my account and I heard nothing since. Funny though, I got a few spam emails via Ebay trying to sell me the same laptop I sold. I complained to Ebay, and this seemed to have stopped it. To be honest, I wouldn't buy anything expensive from Ebay, its nearly always cheaper on Amazon or elsewhere.

I sent a copy of the message to ebay! Despite my yearning to wind this person up, they might also be scamming other people not so versed in scams and in particular the 419 scam...

Got a reply off of them today, seems they'll be dealing with the offending account.

I've bought some expensive stuff in the past off ebay with no problems, you really have to check the sellers feedback, not just the total numbers but the actual comments people left, type of things that the seller usually sells, total time trading all that kind of stuff, so far no problems.

It's also a good idea to ask the seller questions about whatever you want to buy, that can give you a good idea of their degree of professionalism.


For things like quality second hand laptops or the likes it's hard to find anything better than ebay in my opinion.

Happens all the time, I know a man who used to make a small extra crust from selling items on Ebay. He would inflate the price with a couple of dummy accounts, though if he ended up buying the item himself he was out of cash as Ebay would take 10% of the sale.

Personally, when I buy. I like to watch an item and then within the last 20 seconds I hit it with my maximum bud and see if I win. Basically, I gazump everyone else..Though I do give myself a limit that I do not go over despite bidding wars..

Fresh from the press............

Yup, I am just going to oblige with the info..................:der::der:

I did exactly that last month, I wanted an upgrade for my T61, my existing T61 did not have a webcam nor an SD card slot and the one I was bidding on had a better processor than my current one as well. I watched the bidding for a long time and this particular device had not attracted any stupid bids so in the last 5 minutes I tested the water, my personal maximum that I would pay was 170 quid, I know what they are worth, so we started from 73 and I bid it up a bit to see what kind of bid increments people were going for, we got to about 125 and with 5 seconds to go I entered my true maximum bid of 170, all the other automatic bids went through (this auction was on 2 pound increments) and I got it for 142 pounds.

Delighted to say the least, I am typing this on that precise laptop, upgraded with the RAM and disk from the old one, my old one had a small scratch barely noticeable on the screen but the new one is absolutely perfect, not bad for 142 quid.

Exactly round about Christmas I bought a server class laptop for 540 quid, given my profession and my dormant business I still need to have the kit that allows me to write the code that might one day make me some dosh, the device I bought would have been over 1500 new albeit a couple of years back, does not mean that it is anything less than marvellous in todays terms.

If you always wait till the last moment you can see whether there has been artificial inflation of the price by someone's mates, ebay are generally aware of this and it can usually be detected in the bid pattern, in the end it always boils down to what you are willing to pay, if you have a clear idea of value then make your personal value bid at the last moment possible and let the computer work it out then.

If you bid too early people will up their maximum bid and the only winner in that scenario is ebay.

I split myself laughing a few months ago, coming back from the Southport Flower Show... A bloke had a 3 piece suite on the roof of a Corsa.............. And doing 50 on a dual carriageway........ :der:

Oh, I got two emails from this tool setting himself as Paypal asking me to send the phone to Nigeria.

It is such a shame people still fall for these scams, they are so obvious