Help! Never seen anything like this before on ebay!!!

harveyf

Has anybody got any idea whats going on here? I can only pressume its some kind of scam?

My friend listed this item last week, finishes tomorrow -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3318&item=5766725710&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Today this item has been listed as a 1 day auction -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3319&item=7508886781&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I cant understand what theyre trying to achieve, theyve even set the buy it now price to the same amount as my friends item has currently been bid up to.

Anyone seen anything like this before?

patchwork_cat

I would report it to ebay as it looks like a scam. The feedback is all from people with less than 10 and not very imaginative.

PASCALI

Looks like hes got 65 other items for sale, your friend should contact Ebay live help and report it, an obvious scam

harveyf

patchwork_cat wrote:

I would report it to ebay as it looks like a scam. The feedback is all from people with less than 10 and not very imaginative.

Thanks, thats what I told my friend to do, Its such a shame because its his first taste of Ebay! I just hope it doesnt affect his auction to much

harveyf

PASCALI wrote:

Looks like hes got 65 other items for sale, your friend should contact Ebay live help and report it, an obvious scam

How do you contact live help?

mah_jong

Feed back is a joke......

joined on the 15th bought 10 itmes on the 16th...the top five with in minutes and today is the STILL the 16th!!!!

How cone they joined in Canada and item is in China??

SCAMMERS I would say!!!

danmanchester

harveyf wrote:

How do you contact live help?

Log into ebay.com...on the home page you'll see an icon for "live help"

danmanchester

mah_jong wrote:

Feed back is a joke......

joined on the 15th bought 10 itmes on the 16th...the top five with in minutes and today is the STILL the 16th!!!!

How cone they joined in Canada and item is in China??

SCAMMERS I would say!!!

It's a bunch of chinese scammers lol..one item was bought on the 16th and arrived by boat the same day :eek: now that's a flippin' fast boat between canada and China :rotfl: !

JPS

I have emailed Power Seller support and reported this no good for nothing - if your gonna do it at least don't make it so blinkin' obvious!!! Fools....

Tojo_Ralph

Don't waste your keyboard skills on livehelp, they won't want to know.

Now if you were a scammer trying to list items, they'd give you all the advise you need.

harveyf

I can only think theyve just copied other listings as they dont speak english, they would have probably got away with it for longer if theyd just made the items up! The best part I think is that they claim the item is in China then offer demonstrations in Birmingham!!!