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Very Dodgy Seller???

Came across this seller & noticed that she(he) sold this phone before to themselves? Mmmmm
What do you think...................

Dodgy Seller

Looks like he/she gave themselves + feedback (the only one)...
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about !!!
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  • cafenervosa_2
    cafenervosa_2 Posts: 1,023 Forumite
    I think hes on for a short career on eBay! :)
  • Liverbird
    Liverbird Posts: 3,130 Forumite
    The words touch and bargepole spring to mind.
  • RACHIE77
    RACHIE77 Posts: 2,014 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    blimey and the only bidder that has bid on there is called "hantsman" and its obviously the same person as they are newly registered on the day the auction was listed and live in hampshire too, couldnt they think of a less suspect ID?? oh and hang on, they bought this very same phone 2 days before off of someone else who also lives in basingstoke - lol! what is this person up to! lol!
    Official DFW Nerd 210 :D
  • RACHIE77
    RACHIE77 Posts: 2,014 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    lol, they have even linked it to the past sellers website ! http://www.geocities.com/basingstokelad04/Mobile.html
    Official DFW Nerd 210 :D
  • HairyHatMan
    HairyHatMan Posts: 374 Forumite
    Both misschatty04 and basingstokelad04 are now NRU'd

    :D

    hantsman is still at large though
  • Sofa_Sogood
    Sofa_Sogood Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    This was mentioned in the Nokia thread on Grabbit and was responded to, but what does this look like? (Apart from it looking like a con?)

    6376083674

    Who's robbing who? Is it definitely two ID's and one unlucky loser?
  • RACHIE77
    RACHIE77 Posts: 2,014 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    looks to me like shill bidding and I reckon they were seeing how far the '0' feedback bidder would go which is why there are so many bids... the '0' feedbacker could be a scammer but why behave in this way, it is totally bizaree!!

    very odd!!
    Official DFW Nerd 210 :D
  • Sofa_Sogood
    Sofa_Sogood Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    RACHIE77 wrote:
    looks to me like shill bidding and I reckon they were seeing how far the '0' feedback bidder would go which is why there are so many bids... the '0' feedbacker could be a scammer but why behave in this way, it is totally bizaree!!

    very odd!!

    I'm just learning about shill bidders etc Rachie, but whoever bought that phone might have been a newbie :(

    I'd love to report them but don't know how .....yet! ;)

    I've followed the trail and somewhere there's a loser. Just can't figure out if it was the buyer? It's odd though and looks like a shill whatsit.
  • Curry_Queen
    Curry_Queen Posts: 5,589 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    This was mentioned in the Nokia thread on Grabbit and was responded to, but what does this look like? (Apart from it looking like a con?)

    6376083674

    Who's robbing who? Is it definitely two ID's and one unlucky loser?


    I reckon aslisara and medinator are the same person and there's some shill bidding going on judging by how the bids have been placed.

    Medinator also has a poor feedback rating so maybe trying to create a new account with better f/b but something dodgy is certainly going on as medinator has received f/b from aslisara and vice versa, yet if you look at aslisara's account there is nothing listed in f/b left for others :confused:
    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
    ~
    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!

  • Sofa_Sogood
    Sofa_Sogood Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    I reckon aslisara and medinator are the same person and there's some shill bidding going on judging by how the bids have been placed.

    Medinator also has a poor feedback rating so maybe trying to create a new account with better f/b but something dodgy is certainly going on as medinator has received f/b from aslisara and vice versa, yet if you look at aslisara's account there is nothing listed in f/b left for others :confused:

    It's really obvious when you study feedback isn't it?

    I'd hate to think a newbie had paid that amount of money for that phone considering how cheap they were though. Unless it wasn't a newbie?

    Looks like medinator isn't even paying for what he/she's won and got another negative. Why do they bother? :confused: Foolish people.
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