View Full Version : eBay: The sharks are circling ...
mrmando
Oct-18-2005, 12:47pm
Here be the <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-SHIELD-MANDOLA-MANDOLIN-CITTERN-LOOK_W0QQitemZ7358142890QQcategoryZ10179QQrdZ1QQcm
dZViewItem" target="_blank">original listing</a>.
And here be the <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-SHIELD-MANDOLA-MANDOLIN-CITTERN-LOOK_W0QQitemZ7359053260QQcategoryZ10179QQrdZ1QQcm
dZViewItem" target="_blank">ripoff listing</a> by some scumbucket in China.
Most crooks are smart enough to wait until the original listing closes before they try to copy it!
Anyone recognize the instrument in question? Looks interesting.
Dfyngravity
Oct-18-2005, 12:56pm
that's the definition of stupidity right there. just simply amazing!
arbarnhart
Oct-18-2005, 12:58pm
check the sellers feedback and pay attention to the dates. Big gap between last happy transaction and a couple of negs. I am betting those were ripoofs by someone using his ID.
mrmando
Oct-18-2005, 2:16pm
Yep, that's how it looks, someone hijacked the account. eBay has already canceled the auction and deep-sixed the seller, less than 2 hours after I e-mailed them about this. Not bad.
Just look at the location and method of payments to determine the real one.
Jestr
Oct-19-2005, 11:44am
Cool it's only available to Ireland, but they'll ship worldwide. That's service.
BlueMountain
Oct-19-2005, 12:27pm
The mandola is beautiful, but this ripoff from China makes me nauseated. I've bought things from China half a dozen times with no trouble, but I don't buy from people with no feedback record. But here WAS a feedback record, but you wouldn't see the problem unless you actually read the feedback. It just makes me sick to think of people doing this to other people.
I once won an auction for an acoustic amp on eBay. Before I paid, someone contacted me and said he thought it was a scam, as he'd seen the same ad with a different seller name. He had the ad numbers, and he was right. I insisted on more ID from the seller. He wanted only a check. I insisted on Escrow. That's the last I heard from him. I contacted eBay, and they banned him at once.
More recently, my wife answered a phone call around 2 a.m., and it was a telephone operator saying something about a collect call. My wife said yes, she'd accept the charges, thinking it was our daughter calling us with an emergency. The phone went dead. When the phone bill arrived this week, there was a $65 collect call from a cell phone to a number in Mississippi. I typed the latter number into Google and found the address, then used Google Maps to see a map of that address. Then I switched to Satellite view and saw what looked like a pullover for trucks surrounded by fields. I suspect some criminals were using my phone number to make a drug deal or something. My wife called the number and got a non-personal phone message.