Bogus eBay Listing - 6.0 Engine
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Bogus eBay Listing - 6.0 Engine
Just a head's up. There is a currently listing on Ebay for "6.0 Diesel Engine Ford Pickup". If you look the listing over very carefully, and read the seller's feedback, a (1) which was for an "invalid" item he purchased, and then do a search for other items he has for sale (all high-value items), I think you may come to the conclusion that something looks "fishy". I, personally, wouldn't bid on anything he has for sale, but I'm NOT offering you that advice as it would be a violation of eBay's policy to not interfere with an auction, which I'm CERTAINLY not doing here.
Be aware, there is also an auction running from someone with MORE feedback than the (1), and doesn't have the "secret bidders" feature. This is NOT the auction to which I am referring!
This kind of listing is getting, unfortunately, much more common.
Just a word to the wise!
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Be aware, there is also an auction running from someone with MORE feedback than the (1), and doesn't have the "secret bidders" feature. This is NOT the auction to which I am referring!
This kind of listing is getting, unfortunately, much more common.
Just a word to the wise!
SpringerPop
Last edited by SpringerPop; Dec 6, 2004 at 02:39 PM.
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Yup. He's had his eBay auctions pulled down. He had a (1) as a feedback rating, and that was as a buyer. How he got any feedback in the first hour of having an account I'll not know. Then he has about two hundred "high-dollar" items for sale on the same day he opens his eBay account. One of the items had a starting bid of $300,000 (there was a bid), a Piper aircraft. They were all duplicates, verbatum, of legitimate auctions, but with the price about half of the real ones. All his bidders were "protected" by being secret. People had to contact him first before bidding. That way, he now still has their email addresses, and will undoubtedly still get some fool's money, "selling" it off-eBay, with some lame excuse why eBay cancelled the auction. Yes, there was a bid on one of two 7.3 "Emissions Test" engines for around $2400. There were four auctions for 6.0's, with no takers. That bidder will likely still be sending him the money by Western Union. That's all that will ever happen, too. They'll send the money.......
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Last edited by SpringerPop; Dec 6, 2004 at 10:18 PM.
