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02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:55 am
by peteb2002
As it's non-E30 I've put it here rather than the ebay section. Apologies if it's a re-post.
Wet my pants when I saw this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1972-BMW-2002-CAB ... dZViewItem
Too cheap I thought. Sure enough, it's on Autotrader for just shy of £10k!
This is definately a scam, the guy also has a Big Healey on for £7k (on Autotrader for £28.5k)!
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:08 am
by E30Mark
Reported to ebay
To$$er should be shot
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:34 pm
by Rosc0PColtrane
That looks a little like Bombers o2 baur from The Yeovil Show, he was on about selling it
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:42 pm
by e36boy
You can always tell the scams because it says contact seller via email.
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:53 pm
by old_skool
B E A utiful
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:55 pm
by old_skool
To$$er should be shot
How true. I have the correct tools for that job.
O/T but thanks Mark
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:50 pm
by E30Mark
Nice to see ebay taking fraud seriously
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:26 pm
by Gouki
not related to the car in question but I'm sure I've seen another scam on ebay a few weeks back, it was a Yellow E36 that was featured in PBMW and the asking price was roughly £3500. These scams seem to be going around at the moment.
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:34 pm
by CHRISP
How dose the scam work?
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:35 pm
by Z3I
Ebay has non-stop scams of this sort..about time they sorted it out. I'm beginning to lose confidence in their ads. Wheres the Epolice when you need them!
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:17 pm
by E30Mark
CHRISP wrote:How dose the scam work?
Simple you bid and buy a car (The price is always too good to be true.....), then you pay for the car.
The car doesn't exist, the 'seller' does a disappering act with your money.
The end.
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:26 pm
by OBs
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2004-HONDA-CIVIC- ... dZViewItem
A friend showed me this earlier, Do I see a pattern emerging here?!
3,500 pounds, No feed back and in London,London...
Mmmm?
Andy
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:20 pm
by CHRISP
E30Mark wrote:CHRISP wrote:How dose the scam work?
Simple you bid and buy a car (The price is always too good to be true.....), then you pay for the car.
The car doesn't exist, the 'seller' does a disappering act with your money.
The end.
Thank you Mark EBAY shoud sort it out!!!!
Re: 02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:03 pm
by Z3I
Beware.
The sellers often use "hijacked" Ebay accounts, from people who have rersponded to those "please veryfy you Ebay details" scam emails. They then use photos and wording from an expired auction.
The feedback then looks good and positive. The clue to the scam is the message "do not use Ebay as a question link, email me on another email address" Often they are only 1 or 3 day auctions too.
Way round it is up to Ebay. They could easily send a verification code, say for aticles over £100, to the registered Ebay emal address of the account holder, for you to re-enter and kick the auction off.