I'd sure like to have £300 000 in pocket
change. *And* I'm starting to understand
why some people need these funny smiling
faces on messages.
Those scams are major business and there
seems to be nothing eBay can do about
it. The unwary get caught by the
thousand -- just like the Nigerian 419
scams.
How are you doing anyway?
I've been messing with microscopes for a
couple of years now and came back to the
group for purely selfish reasons. To
pick brains for help before finally
deciding to get an *ist D. I got one and
the La Crosse charger for NiMH and
decided to use a 6V lead acid for work
inside. All decisions based on advice
from the group. Maybe I thought of the
gel battery myself -- I can't remember now.
And by the way blue tack hasn't pulled
the IR filters off any of the sensors I
have here so far and I don't think it
will either. I carried out a lot of
careful experiments before I used it on
sensors. One of the tests I used was to
clean a surface silvered mirror with
blue tack and then blow dust at it to
see if any would stick. It didn't -- not
any more than an untacked surface did
anyway. I could blow the dust off and
without going to enormous lengths
(electron microscopy or radio active
tracers) was satisfied that the trace
residue (theoretically there has to be
some) was harmless.
Don
graywolf wrote:
Golly, Don, I figured you would recognize satire when you saw it.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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Don Williams wrote:
Small pocket change?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/29/nebay29.xml
graywolf wrote:
Second chance bids are supposed to come as BIN offers. Anything else
is probably someone trying to pick up a bit of spare pocket change
without working for it.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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Peter Jordan wrote:
I had the same for an 85mm f/ 1.4 . What sort of gave the game away
was that the e-mail arrived about 5 minutes after the end of the
auction & I was only the 5th highest bidder.
The other 4 must have dropped out real fast.
Peter
----- Original Message ----- From: "Derby Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: new ebay scam
dave g wrote:
Just want to mention a scam I haven't seen before. I bid on an
item and
lost. I was contacted via ebay by a member who has 100% feedback over
about 5 years, in this case. The member offered me a second chance on
the item, saying the winner of the bid didn't come through. In this
particular case I had in fact already spoken with the real seller
of the
item, and he lives in England. I noticed the other member who
contacted
me is in the US, has nothing to do with cameras and asked me to
reply to
the one I'd already written to to reach the real seller directly.
However, the whole thing looked quite legitimate as it went through
ebay's mail system. In any event, I sent a generic reply from an
email
address that can't be traced to me (can't be too careful) and said
"yes,
i'd love to buy the item" without mentioning item number or name. The
scammer in the first instance was interested in obtaining my name,
address, phone number, now asking for the item # and my member ID
(because he must be running this on quite a few people he couldn't
know
which one I was from the email). I'll post any more info received.
Meanwhile I think ebay has closed that account.
Anyway, just another warning amidst the many out there.
dave
This happened to me too. I lost my bid on a K15mm. Then _two_
emails came in from different addresses, none of which were the
seller's, offering a second chance bid. As someone said on this
list, how dumb do they think we are?
I notified ebay, and got this response.
--
eBay Australia Customer Support wrote:
Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to write to eBay. My name is Cherie,
and I
would be happy to assist you.
Please be aware that the second chance offer you have received is
not from eBay. The offer would be from the original seller of the
item. If it came from sfdst1 and canyon456, it is not real. For a
second chance offer for item number 7542263736 to be legit, it
would need to be sent by online_auction_broker. I can most
certainly understand your concern regarding this "Second Chance
Offer". I would like to take a moment to explain what a real one
looks like, so that you are prepared for future transactions. When
a seller offers a second chance offer to the next highest bidder,
it is normally because the winner backed out, the next highest
bidder would receive an email. A second chance offer will have a
link but it will clearly state the item number at the end of the
link and you can pull that up by searching for that same number on
the eBay site. (You do not have to click on the link, just search
for the item number stated in the link) This part of the offer will
look like the following:
This offer expires Thursday, Dec 19, 2002 20:02:26 PST. To
purchase this item, click the "Buy It Now" button located at the
bottom of the following page:
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewPersonalOffer&item=2900703
504.
If they accept the second chance offer, a new fixed price listing
will be automatically generated by the system. It will be the same
listing that you bid on before only it will have a buy it now
option with the price you bid on the item. (This would be your
maximum bid that you placed in the original auction) eBay does not
suggest that you complete transactions off-site and if your seller
does want to follow through with the second chance offer, you can
explain to them that you wish for it to be through eBay so that you
are covered by eBay's Standard Purchase Protection Program.
If you have already received a second chance offer and it seems a
bit off from the information that I have entered above, I suggest
that you copy the email along with the headers into an email and
sent it to us so
that we can investigate. At that time we will advise you if the
email you received is legitimate or not.
The full header is extremely important, as we cannot take any kind
of action without it. A header will look like a string of
"nonsense" characters, similar to the example I have pasted for you
below. You can find this by using the "properties" function of your
email program.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc
--
Dr E D F Williams
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http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams
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