Yep - they've been doing that for years. Strange, though, that they were actually able to get your user id, as they are now blocked.
Even if it IS legitimately the wife, keep in mind, all sales transacted directly like that, outside of eBay, come with zero protection from either eBay *OR* PayPal. I'd ignore it, and find another auction, or as you said you were doing, keep trying to contact the seller. One thing you can do, is see if the seller leaves a feedback for the high bidder, and if so, you'll have a definite answer. Tony -----Original Message----- From: Adam Maas [email protected] Sent 2/6/2009 6:59:14 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] Subject: Re: ebay question Pretty common eBay scam. Don't reply. Report to eBay (who is death on this sort of thing). -Adam On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Larry Colen [email protected] wrote: I had made $1432 (firing order, dontcha know) bid on some gear, a K20, 16-50, 50-135 and other goodies. I decided to drop out of the race and the auction went for $1800. I got a message, from yet another ebay account, saying that the person who won the auction didn't have the money, and they are offering it to me at the price I bid, please contact them at such and such an email address, where they need my ebay account, real name, address etc. so that they can go through ebay procedures to sell me the gear at the price I bid at, and they won't charge shipping. Why a different account? It's her husband's account. The account that was selling the gear has not responded to my queries. I'm about 87.3% convinced that someone is working a scam, though I'm not sure how they managed to contact me through ebay. Is there any reason that I shouldn't just report this to ebay's fraud department? If I should, who would I report it to? -- It's not the steps in the dance, it's the dance in the steps. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. ���������� -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
