Yesterday, 6 hours after being one of the losing bidders on a pair of JBL C50 speakers, I received a second chance email that said it was sent from the seller through ebay because the top bidder had passed and I could buy it at my submitted bid (over $2K). It had working links to ebay, all the logos, etc. The thing that made me suspicious was that the email address was different from the original, which I only noticed because I had sent the seller a question earlier. I contacted the seller and he confirmed that he had not sent it and that it was no doubt a scam. I was tempted to play with the sender and respond, insisting on paying at the time of pick up, but there was really no point, so I reported it to ebay and deleted it.So look out, ebay bidders. This was really well done.
Edits: 07/05/20
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Topic - New ebay scam - Glynn W 08:38:21 10/15/04 (12)
- Re: New ebay scam - ( ) 13:24:02 10/18/04 (0)
- wow - Paully 09:28:41 10/15/04 (0)
- All the more reason not work outside of Ebay - marc g. 09:48:21 10/15/04 (5)
- The "second chance offer" is not "work[ing] outside of Ebay" (nt) - wunhuanglo 11:15:45 10/15/04 (1)
- Re: The "second chance offer" is not "work[ing] outside of Ebay" (nt) - steve6 17:11:11 10/15/04 (0)
- Yes actually the second chance is normally sent through - Paully 11:40:41 10/15/04 (1)
- Thanks for the info! nt - marc g. 15:15:57 10/15/04 (0)
- As always... - J 17:52:33 10/15/04 (0)
- It's incredible how much fraud is going on at Ebay and AudioWeb... - Dad 10:13:37 10/15/04 (1)
- Audioweb has always been loaded with scamming... - Sean 11:38:06 10/15/04 (0)
- Re: i have bought cd's which simply have not come, but e-bay has always gotten paid thier share ! - zuki 17:38:16 10/15/04 (0)
- Thank you! nt - Duilawyer 10:31:58 10/16/04 (0)