I have seen a bobcat advertised on eBay, they want 3K USD for it, including shiping. Its worth neerer 20K GBP.
As with all deals that are too good to be true, I am wondering what the con is. one or two leap to mind
1) stolen - check serial numbers2) non delivery - leave funds in escrow
any other obvious ones ?
Rick
There have been a number of mini-tractors and similar things in scams using stolen accounts on Ebay recently. I mailed Ebay about one of them a couple of weeks ago.
The things that immediately sets alarm bells ringing are:-
Silly price.
Seller asks you to E-Mail them before bidding and then tells you what the fixed price is, there's no actual auction on Ebay.
The payment goes to a (fake) escrow service which E-Mails you, if you investigate where the E-Mail comes from it's *not* a proper, safe, place.
x-posted to uk.people.consumers.ebay: they are wise to every scam there is. Would be helpful to provide the listing number for scrutiny of the listing, but I guess you don't want to publicise it just in case it
*isn't* too good to be true!david
Theres also the more mundane fact that it may be utterly and totally knackered.
NT
It was indeed a scam, it was a very bad scam, not even vaguley convincing.
Rick
I got a dumper like that, I nearly died when I drove it down a hill to find it had no brakes.
Rick
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