Yet another scam lathe sale on ebay to be aware of

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The exact same mill that was sold in Huntingdon on 22nd October, using the same photographs and description.

Also selling a diesel generator that was sold in Dartford on 16th October, same photos, same description.

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Lol(I laughed) punctuation, next part of comment, reading comprehension .

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Perhaps by the absence or presence of an appropriate smiley thing to indicate ‘not serious’

MichaelG.

If I was going to tell lies, they'd be a lot more interesting than that.

How are you contacting ebay? I can only highlight the item to them and pick from a drop down menu that I suspect the item is fruadulent. If I could point out to them why I thought it was fraudulent I think I would be more successful. I've definately done this in the past but can't remember how I did it. Thanks.

I used the ‘report this item’ at the bottom of the item posting, but only had some drop down box selections to pick from. I had already noted the I’d number of the sold item that the photos were from, but there was no way to pass this to ebay.

I can only conclude that they have no interest in stopping scams.

About three years ago, I noticed somebody selling an item which was radioactive without mentioning that fact to any potential buyer. Complaining to ebay got nowhere and all I got from the seller was abuse and told to mind my own business.

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It would be better to win the auction, get the sellers bank info, then report to the police.

I might have a bid.

15 minutes ago I bid on this, the seller has just blocked me and removed my bids, there's a pretty good chance he's reading this forum.

Do e-bay really take any notice? No they don't. Problem 8 years ago. Complained. They appointed a bent lawyer in some obscure Los Angeles law firm that the Bar Council of LA said did not exist. My transaction took place here in the UK on UK soil with UK card in sterling. They did everything to wriggle. Then this 5 star fine upstanding e bay seller was arrested and convicted with a long sentence for having a house full of pirated child pornography and stolen video machines. Sceptic tank lawyer sooned zipped her gob and I had to reclaim my money via the card company.

Lesson learned. Never use this disgusting outfit. Good luck to those who do. I assume all are scammers and crooks.

Ian

Edited By Ian B. on 06/01/2021 07:42:24

The only way to stop these scams is to use a bid sniping tool (to stop bids being cancelled) and refuse to pay.

Ebay don't care, and cannot police it anyway.

I have Moto Guzzi motorbikes and regularly browse ebay for parts. Someone tries the same scamming techniques here and has 1000's of listing of rare, strange, unusual vehicles put up regularly.

It must be a full time job.

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I noticed that CNC unit when I did a "nearest first" search and thought -what the heck is someone away over there doing with one of those?-

But you do get genuine unusual stuff up here, my Acorn shaper came down from further up North and there is quite a lot of stuff still around the Glasgow area from bygone years

Edited By Ady1 on 06/01/2021 08:34:14

ebay is even touting it for him

Just received this in my eMail ...

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It's not hard to kill off these things, I recall some nazi stuff being bid up past 500,000 on the ebay system by protestors who had no intention of paying up

looks like he's now traded in his emco for a boxford...lol

Edited By Ady1 on 06/01/2021 09:09:44

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