02 Targa - SCAM ALERT!

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peteb2002
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:55 am

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)!
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:08 am

Reported to ebay :cool:

To$$er should be shot
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:34 pm

That looks a little like Bombers o2 baur from The Yeovil Show, he was on about selling it
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:42 pm

You can always tell the scams because it says contact seller via email.
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:53 pm

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:drool:

B E A utiful
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:55 pm

To$$er should be shot
How true. I have the correct tools for that job.

O/T but thanks Mark :cool:
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:50 pm

Nice to see ebay taking fraud seriously :cry:
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:26 pm

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.
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:34 pm

How dose the scam work? :o:
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:35 pm

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!
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:17 pm

CHRISP wrote:How dose the scam work? :o:
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.
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:26 pm

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?

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Post Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:20 pm

E30Mark wrote:
CHRISP wrote:How dose the scam work? :o:
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!!!! :mad:
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Post Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:03 pm

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.
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